From: leon breedt <bitserf@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T05:36:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rendezvous support

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:36:02 +0900, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> Is it hard, or is it that its a C library and you haven't worked much
> with building C libraries? Or are you on a windows box? I follow the
> Apple rendezvous mailling list, and I get the impression they have a
> windows release of the client library, at least, maybe the server, too.
On Windows they've a Rendezvous package (for end-users), which
includes dnssd.dll.

They also distribute a Rendezvous SDK, which includes the headers
files and .libs, and some sample C code.

I was able to easily implement bindings in C#, I don't foresee
problems for anyone wanting to do Ruby (either with DL or native
extension) bindings. The API is quite UNIX-ish, though on free UNIXen
libhowl probably has an easier API to use.

Implementing non-blocking support with Ruby should be fairly
straightforward as the API returns a "file descriptor", but just be
aware that file handles and socket handles aren't as interchangeable
on Win32 :)

Leon