Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster

[Catching up on email after getting back in town]

Chris Campbell <chris@bignerdranch.com> writes:
> On Thursday, Mar 27, 2003, at 02:04 US/Eastern, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd object to adding a Microsoft-specific patch of this ilk, and so
>> I'm having a moral problem with approving of an Apple-specific one...
>> can you offer us a platform-independent solution?

> Apple's Rendezvous implementation is open-source. Specifically, the
> mDNSResponder program and associated API that makes ZEROCONF do its
> thing. So this patch isn't platform-dependent but API-dependent, and
> anyone could build mDNSResponder on their system to make this API
> available.

Well, fair enough.  I concur with the other comment that the
appropriate configure test should be added, though.

            regards, tom lane