Re: [TCLCORE] The Long and Winding Road.. to 8.6.0

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

On 2010-03-17, at 9:20 AM, Pat Thoyts wrote:
> Reinhard Max <ma...@tc...> writes:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 at 21:26, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
>> 
>>> [...] but I believe that Reinhard was in process with a variant 
>>> patch that had "improved" characteristics.
>> 
>> that one got sort of stuck due to the lack of volunteers to test it 
>> and help fixing/finishing it on non-Linux platforms (or better: my 
>> lack to find such people).
>> 
> 
> I've been running Reinhard's ipv6 patch on my site for ages now. It
> was solaris and is now linux. And iirc my local linux tclkits are all
> using it too so when I go to irc it uses ipv6 magically.
> 
> I reckon we should just jam in the unix ipv6 support and windows can
> follow later.

No please.  The patch I had was 100% cross-platform (from big iron to Windows).  I'd like to make sure we don't find that the patch makes us have to make horrible hacks to make it work on Windows.

Also, I don't think it will be that hard.  Unless I missed an email, Reinhard didn't get a chance to post his latest to the ipv6 bug (e.g. 1782896).  I see he's now created a cvs branch for it though, so we can hash this out (though I'm at a conference this week).

Jeff