Re: [TCLCORE] The Remaining "Big Plan" TIPs... (TIP#162 ipv6)

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>    TIP#162: IPv6 Sockets for Tcl
	...
> For example, #162 (IPv6) is really not about the sort of major
> re-engineering that David Gravereaux envisages, as that would take much
> more work than we have time to do *even with an implementation ready for
> one platform*. Given that, getting IPv6 support is actually the issue
> before us and that's what I plan to call that TIP on. (Yes, a generic
> plugin architecture for socket types would be neat, as would fixing the
> blocking-resolver bug. But they're not this TIP.)

I have a working patch for this that Pat has vetted.  I will try and 
squeeze out some time this weekend to update the patch (tkchat consensus 
was to use -family instead of -type for inet4|inet6) against the head(s).

Jeff