IOWatcher deprecated

[railnerd]

Just switched to node 0.8 and pulling in mdns appears to trigger the following warning:

$ node app.js
WARNING: don't use IOWatcher, it'll be removed in v0.9

Per the nodejs blog, iowatcher is being deprecated (http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/06/25/node-v0-8-0/)

[agnat]

Thanks for the report. That was to be expected. Guess it's time to port to the new libuv poll code then. I'll look into it. I just need to find the time to do so...

Thanks again

[ronkorving]

+1
Looking forward to this being refactored :)

[MylesBorins]

+1
Thanks for the hard work :D

[agnat]

Just wanted to let you guys know that you're not forgotten. In fact this issue is the top priority for the next release. I just have to find the time to actually do it.

Thanks for your patience.

[ronkorving]

Thanks for the update. Much appreciated that you're on it :) I'd send a PR, but have to admit I'm quite green when it comes to the native side of Node, and apparently we both have very busy schedules :(

[kilianc]

+1 (I'll see if I can PR)

[agnat]

Cool! You might want to take a look at my last comment in #38. It roughly describes what needs to be done.

[agnat]

Ah, and also talk to @No9. He wanted to take a look, too.

[ronkorving]

Is there any news on this? Would love to get cleaner error logs ;)

[No9]

Hey all I put this one on the back burner. I wanted mdns on windows so I could use hook.io.
Unfortunately that project seems to have gone the way of all things. https://github.com/hookio/hook.io and I have found a simpler but not as feature full alternative.
GL

[AndreasMadsen]

+1 would love to see this.

[jameswomack]

@No9 What was the alternative plugged into hook.io?

@agnat Do you have knowledge of a branch in which this has been endeavored upon? I'm interested in contributing.

[agnat]

Hey @jameswomack,

that's awesome. A patch would be very welcome. Unfortunately I don't know if such a branch exists. However, please have a look at issue #38. It basically is a different aspect of the same issue (replacing IOWatcher). I commented on what needs doing and @croteb put together a gist. It's not working (yet) but it may be a good starting point...

[agnat]

Fixed in ef89787 (v1.0.0). On node >=0.7.9 mdns now uses a libuv based SocketWatcher implemented and contributed by @TobyEalden.

Thanks!