Re: AppleTalk

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 03/02/2018 à 14:15, Hauke Fath a écrit :
> > This package is well maintained
> > - the last release was less than a year ago -, well documented, and does not
> > depend on any kernel netatalk code.
>
> Netatalk 3.x cannot talk to any Mac that relies on Appletalk for service
> discovery, PAP printing and AppleShare filesharing.
>
> Netatalk 2.2.6 is the last version to support those machines. It relies on
> the kernel AppleTalk stack to do this.

So, you responded more quickly than I did; as I said in my reply, I figured
out that indeed I was mistaken, that netatalk 3 dropped DDP.

> > The other BSDs already removed their netatalk/ several years ago, because it
> > is a burden to maintain,
>
> IOW, NetBSD is the last open source OS to provide network support for
> pre-OSX Macintoshes. This is a feature in my book.

Not really, it seems that Linux also still has DDP in the kernel, but I don't
think they will keep that for a long time.

I see, also, that we have a netatalk-2.2.6 package. I guess it is because of
the missing DDP in -3? If so, then I guess we could keep the code.

Maxime