Avahi optimisations

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:57:27AM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> However, Sugar's UI code currently tracks buddy objects by key, so the
> key is required to be unique. I have a patch in #4656 to fix this, as it
> prevented more than one key-less buddy from being displayed (e.g. a
> regular XMPP client). This patch was considered too invasive for
> Update.1 and has bit-rotted and needs to be redone. We also identify
> friends in ~/.sugar/default/friends by key so that needs to change.
> Since then we applied the patch in #6142 which actually *requires* all
> buddies to have a key, due to a problem discovered by using hyperactivity.
> 
> Removing the keys from the TXT records without fixing these issues will
> break mesh view so it's not something you can quickly have up and running.

Does sugar make any assumptions about the size of the key? IOW can we instead
of removing the key completely, use a smaller key?


  Sjoerd
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