Re: question about low availability of Mac OS X applications that has GnuStep edition

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 25 Jan 2011, at 10:12, Niels Grewe wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:02:25AM +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> 
>> GNUstep has NSNetServices (Bonjour), but for sure there are things it does 
>> not have.  We welcome contributions to fill in any gaps.  However, the fact 
>> that there are and always will be gaps does not mean that the vast majority 
>> of funtionality is already provided and porting is therefore immensely 
>> easier than it might otherwise be.
> 
> Actually our NSNetServices implementation should be complete with
> respect to Cocoa (unless they did add stuff in 10.6, I didn't check
> that) and also includes substantial extensions. We support, for example,
> publishing arbitrary records through NSNetService. On OS X, you need to
> resort to the low-level mDNSResponder API to achieve the same thing.

Sorry, what I meant to say was that, while in general there are, of course, 
things missing from GNUstep, we *do* have support for Bonjour using the same 
API as Apple.