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Re: Rendezvous for Windows

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Subject: Re: Rendezvous for Windows
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:17:15 -0500
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At 4:01 PM -0400 6/30/04, Thomas Reed wrote:

<http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/>

Heh... Anybody at RS kicking themselves over the decision to roll their own auto-discovery code instead of using Rendezvous? ;-)

No. We knew Rendezvous was open-source and potentially cross-platform when we implemented Autodiscovery. But AutoDiscovery has a number of other advantages. I see no advantages to Rendezvous except the ability to discover Rendezvous-enabled devices -- but I've never actually run into one of those myself. For just finding other copies of your own apps (or other apps in a suite of RB-made apps) -- which is the intended purpose of the AutoDiscovery class -- the current implementation is better (for example, it's much smaller).

Best,
- Joe

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