On 8/31/05, Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 09:16:33 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > There are numerous ASYNC DNS packages out there to be used. Why not > > > use one? > > > > we looked at 2 > > Heh. "Numerous" turned out to be 3; most of the ones I was thinking > of were actually all ADNS (which is GPL). > > > 2. the other wasn't even included in debian's massive list of packages - > > that > > means users now have to go fine another lib they need and compile and > > install > > it - and we don't provide it. it was a tossup here, but i don't think any > > of us > > was that happy about sucking in an external build dep just for this simple > > thing, thus sebastien implemented dns lookups. he did the hard bit - reading > > the rfc's and doing the network protocol handling. the easy stuff is left to > > do :) > > I'm not sure I'd agree that NIS/YP and LDAP are "easy stuff." > > But ecore already has hooks for spawning subprograms and getting > callbacks, right? Why not write a wrapper around gethostbyname() that > ecore_con would spawn? That way we wouldn't have to rewrite the whole > damn thing. (Although if we do, we should make it a separate > project.) > > Another idea I had: What about a standalone GPL daemon program that > communicates via IPC and uses ADNS? Client programs wouldn't link to > it, so no viral infection. Thoughts?
There's a librarie which do Async DNS resolv with a "AS-IS" license : C-ares : http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/ Hope that could help > > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "If the homo sapiens were, in fact, *homo* sapiens, is that why > they're extinct?" "Joey, homo sapiens are people." "Hey, I'm not > judging!" -- Joey Tribbiani and Ross Gellar, "Friends" > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- Beber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
