disabling kdenetwork/lanbrowsing for 4.0.0
Tom Albers
tomalbers at kde.nl
Wed Jan 2 16:22:25 CET 2008
Op woensdag 2 januari 2008 16:18 schreef u:
> Hi,
>
> in kdenetwork there is lanbrowsing/, which consists of:
> -the lisa daemon, a daemon which basically scans the local network for IP
> addresses which respond to ping packets, and which cooperates with other lisa
> daemons in the network
> -the lan:/ ioslave, which queries the lisa daemon, and which check (on demand)
> the samba, nfs, http, and ssh ports on a host to offer these services of a
> host as directories via kio
> -a control module for all that
>
> I wrote that in KDE 2 times, and more or less since end of 2002 I didn't
> really work on it, especially not for KDE 4. In the meantime there are
> technologies like Zeroconf, which should be able to do the same job, just
> better.
>
> Therefor I'd like to disable lanbrowsing from kdenetwork for the 4.0.0
> release, patch attached.
>
> Ok ?
>
> Alex
Hi,
Thanks for informing this list. Do you plan to work on it in the future?
If not, I think it is better to move it to /tags/unmaintained/4
If you do, we might consider moving it to playground for now.
What do you think?
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Tom Albers
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