Thanks for your adivce, if I have used Spread as a tool in my application, I wonn't forget to inlucde the license in my apllication.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Lane Schultz</b> <<a href="mailto:jschultz@spreadconcepts.com">jschultz@spreadconcepts.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Bus Mini wrote:<br>> Schultz:<br>><br>> Thanks for your hlep, I can get a clear understanding now. But before I
<br>> can use Spread, I still have a question. It seems very complcated to<br>> configue spread, if I developed an application with Spread in my<br>> computer, and it works well because I know how to install and configue
<br>> Spreadm in my computer. But it may cause some problem if the user of my<br>> application is someone who have no konwleage about computer. How can I<br>> make sure other user can use my application without understanding
<br>> Spread? I mean is there an easy way for me to release my application<br>> then all the users have to do is just runing my application without<br>> install Spread(to me Spread works much more like a program than a lib ).
<br>><br>> Thanks for reading my e-mail. Your help is very important to me.<br>><br>> --<br>> Yours sincerely<br>> Mini Bus.<br><br>You could of course have your software bundle Spread with it and install Spread
<br>automatically. Then for configuration you could provide some nice GUI that<br>generates the spread.conf file appropriately. When you start/end your<br>application it can launch/kill Spread.<br><br>Alternatively, you could try and run Spread in process with your application. I
<br>know some people on this list have tried to change Spread so that rather than<br>having a main() function it instead has a thread entry function and the compile<br>the Spread code into their application's executable. Then your application
<br>spawns a thread that runs the thread entry function (i.e. - the renamed main()<br>fcn). I haven't tried that but it seems like it could work and this is<br>basically running Spread as a library.<br><br>You would still need, however, to configure Spread. There isn't really a good
<br>way around getting all the appropriate IPs that I can see. You could make a<br>nice interface to the conf file rather than editing a text file, but that is<br>about it.<br><br>If you distribute your application that uses Spread, then remember that you have
<br>to comply with Spread's Open Source license (<br><a href="http://www.spread.org/license/license.html">http://www.spread.org/license/license.html</a> ), which requires that:<br><br>'3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning features or use
<br>of this software, or software that uses this software, must display the<br>following acknowledgment: "This product uses software developed by Spread<br>Concepts LLC for use in the Spread toolkit. For more information about Spread
<br>see <a href="http://www.spread.org">http://www.spread.org</a>"'<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>--<br>John Schultz<br>Spread Concepts LLC<br>Phn: 443 838 2200<br>Fax: 301 560 8875<br><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Yours sincerely<br>Mini Bus.