[ros-dev] Service Control Manager, Plug and Pray, SMB and RPC

[Eric Kohl]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
> Am I correct in understanding we are going to need a real rpc implementation to correctly support
> Plug and Play as well as Services, DCOM and SMB related stuff? I know the Wine DCOM and Service
> Code does everything over named pipes on the local system but I assume we want to do things
> "properly". Should we look at doing a mingw build of FreeDCE or the DEC-RPC? I am happy to try and
> help import any code if it will help.

IMHO, adding missing features to WIDL and fixing resulting bugs in 
rpcrt4 is much more important right now. Access to remote machines, new 
transports (tcp, udp, http, etc.) and a dynamic endpoint mapper (aka 
rpcss) is not that important.

Regards,
Eric