Subject: [netatalk-admins] AppleShare on IP
From: Jonas Blomberg (Jonas.Blomberg@nexus.se)
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 12:48:37 EST
Greetings!
Now that the client side of AppleShare on IP has been available from Apple
for quite some time, supporting MacOS versions from 7.5.3 onwards (if I am
not mistaken), isn't it time to consider simply scrapping all the AppleTalk
support in netatalk? I know that this may sound a bit provocative, but I
would guess that only a very tiny portion of Macs actually connected to
netatalk servers is unable to run the necessary Appleshare client software.
I am not familiar with the innards of netatalk, but am I right in guessing
that a sizable part of the complexity of netatalk stems from supporting
appletalk in various ways, including modifying the various unix kernels.
Using Laserwriter 8.5.1 (which I think can run on MacOS 7.0 and later), we
can also forego AppleTalk when printing. Isn't support for AppleTalk style
printing also a respectable chunk of netatalk software?
So what I asking is: If one would rip out ALL AppleTalk support from
netatalk and concentrate on AppleShare over IP, wouldn't we get a leaner,
meaner, better product, without really losing anything?
I don't know enough about netatalk to make this an actual suggestion, but
isn't it a relevant question?
/Jonas
--- Jonas Blomberg (Jonas.Blomberg@Nexus.SE) Technology Nexus Secure Open Systems AB, Box 857 751 08 Uppsala, SWEDEN, +46-18-171800
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