[Development] Requesting New Repository - QtZeroConf

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 10 September 2015 12:28:13 drwho at infidigm.net wrote:
> avahi-core is for embedded environments and runs it's own mDNS stack...for
> when there is no avahi-daemon
> 
> > D-Bus on Windows, for example, looks for dbus-launch.exe on PATH and
> > starts
> > it. If it's missing, QtDBus still compiles and you can ship your
> > application,
> > but refuses to connect anywhere. We could go for a similar approach, but I
> > don't like it.
> 
> Apple's bonjour lib is like avahi-client in that it connects to
> mDNSResponder.  mDNSResponder, or something like it is built into OSx and
> iOS, but on windows comes in Apple's print services.
> 
> The wrappers that use avahi-client and Apple's bonjour lib would be the
> same as QtDBus as in it would still compile and ship, but is really only
> an issue for windows.

Do you know if avahi-core could be made to run on Windows?
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center