Re: [Xgridagent-development] Tiger, use of howl

[Matthew W. J. <ma...@os...>]

I have an X-Serve running Tiger server, though it's good to know that
we'll have a couple of people to be able to test it :)

Mat

On 27-May-2005 Travis Beals wrote:
> OK, great. Do you have OS X Tiger Server available?  There are hacks  
> to circumvent the limitations, but officially, Xgrid now requires an  
> OS X Server box as a controller. I have OS X Server, so I can do some  
> tests, or perhaps just give you an account on the machine.
> 
> -Travis
> 
> On May 27, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Matthew W. Jones wrote:
> 
>> I'm actually still using an old version of XGrid on Tiger (Doesn't  
>> work
>> as well either, it's still useable from the command line).  I'll give
>> the new XGrid a try this weekend.
>>
>> I've noticed the issues with libHowl, I'm working on a replacement
>> implementation... I'll let you guys know when it's done.  Either way
>> 1.0.3 will stay on LibHowl.
>>
>> Mat
>>
>> On 25-May-2005 Travis Beals wrote:
>>
>>> I finally got my Xserve upgraded to Tiger, although it was hell
>>> (somehow Tiger broke KDE on some of my BSD machines that NFS-mount
>>> home directories from the xserve). Now, it seems that xgridagent
>>> won't talk to the new controller. Matthew, are you running Tiger
>>> Server successfully as a controller for a grid containing Xgridagent
>>> agents? Daniel implied that this wouldn't work, and I'm inclined to
>>> agree with him, although I may just have missed something. Does
>>> anyone know how much work is involved in making xgridagent compatible
>>> again?
>>>
>>> As a minor consideration for future planning, it looks like there are
>>> some license issues with Howl that indirectly affect us. Basically, a
>>> number of linux distributions (Debian, for example) don't like the
>>> patent clause in the APSL, and so won't include Howl. People can
>>> always download and compile Howl themselves, but that's a bit
>>> inconvenient.  See this email:
>>>
>>> http://lists.porchdogsoft.com/pipermail/howl-users/2005-April/
>>> 000614.html
>>>
>>> There are apparently other mDNS / ZeroConf implementations (e.g.
>>> Avahi) either available or under development that do not have these
>>> issues. Long-term, we should perhaps consider switching to one of
>>> them. It doesn't seem that Avahi is quite ready for primetime yet,
>>> though, so we should stick with Howl for now.
>>>
>>> -Travis
>>>
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