avahi and howl

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:33:58PM -0600, Trever L. Adams wrote:
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>>Is this something that RedHat/Fedora should follow Debian/Gaim on? 
>>Sorry if this is purely political.
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>I'd rather we pushed Gaim into extras. Unfortunately however there seem
>to be a lack of secure sane im clients
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That would only work if Gaim was the only thing using howl in Fedora 
Core but there seems be a general trend towards moving away from howl to 
avahi or providing it as a alternative with a abstraction layer in 
several upstream projects and while we are talking about gaim, its worth 
point out that Google has hired the lead Gaim developer to work on 
Google Talk. Hopefully that has some positive effects on Gaim too.

http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3556506

regards
Rahul