[distcc] distcc-zeroconf (Apple Xcode)

[Martin Pool]

On 22 Jan 2004, Benjamin Reed <ranger at befunk.com> wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> >As I said, that is not the point.  It should not be necessary for
> >anyone to ask around in the hope of finding the source.  Apple must
> >provide it (or an offer to send it.)
> 
> Ah, so.
> 
> I'd always thought it to be just that they had to provide it if the user 
> asked, but on a rereading of the GPL they were supposed to have either 
> provided an actual notice of availability of the source or put the 
> source in with the dev tools installer.
> 
> I don't recall seeing anything in the installer about distcc's source, 
> and a grep through /Developer and the installer receipts for the SDK 
> don't have any mention of distcc except for general distcc 
> troubleshooting stuff.  :P

Could you check that please?

> On the subject of the technical issues, though, is anyone 
> interested/willing/capable of forward-porting apple's changes to a 
> modern distcc?  It would be definitely nice to have...

Last time I looked, the Apple changes were pretty messy.  I would like
to see the general idea moved in though.  For general use, I think you
would need some kind of check that the gcc versions matched properly.
I'm planning to add some checks in a future version.

You would also need to find a mDNS library under an appropriate (GPL,
MIT, or weaker) licence.

There is also some debate about whether this should be done through
mDNS, SLP, or something else.  Possibly it should be done in an
external plug-in to allow for different methods.

-- 
Martin 
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