[olpc-software] [Fwd: Re: [avahi] scalability of avahi (or mdns-sd in genera

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 00:02 -0500, Krishna Sankar wrote:
> > > D) Unless we are leveraging the bus for other functionalities, avahi 
> > > *might* be slightly heavyweight; we might have to implement 
> > ZeroConf on the bare metal
> > 
> > Not sure why this is.
> >  
> <KS>
> 	Couple of points : One of my concern was the DBUS (may be not a valid concern, especially if we are leveraging the DBUS in OLPC).

That's the idea, to use dbus as the IPC interface for most stuff.  We
should be using it for anything that would otherwise use a unix socket,
CORBA, DCOP, whatever, unless there's a really, really good reason.
(like sound; obviously you're not going to write a WAV file through
dbus).

Dan