On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:57, Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really want to run the Windows version of VLC on OS X? I believe there is a better case to be made with Safari/Quicktime/iTunes as I believe they also install Bonjour services on Windows. If you wanted to validate/compare how the native service works verses say a wrapper then it would be of use.
Pidgin might be another example...
What I really meant is that it should at least be evaluated... (I didn't realize at the time that Bonjour for Windows has a seperate installer available...)
It might have a valid use if conflicts exist between Windows Bonjour under Wine and native bonjour / other Zeroconf implementations... (such as listening on the same port) (If such a confilct exists, it should be possible to run either a ZeroConf implementation natively or to run it under Wine, but not both. This can be problematic, since two of Wine's largest platforms, Ubuntu and OS X installs ZeroConf implementations by default)
(I'm not familiar enough with Bonjour / ZeroConf to really understand which parts of it is wrapped by this DLL) (It seems that DNS Service Discovery is able to function without mDNS)
Just a note: According to Wikipedia, Photoshop CS3 is among the applications using Bonjour under Windows: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/01/cs3_doesnt_inst.html
Gert