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

[Reinhard M. <ma...@tc...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 at 22:16, Jeff Hobbs wrote:

> 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.

as my patch only touches files in the unix subdir and passes the 
original test suite, I don't see how it should force us into hacks on 
the Windows side that wouldn't be needed anyways.

What my patch does not yet have is a switch to enforce the address 
family, but that should be easy to add once the low level 
functionality is there on all platforms. I left that out for now, 
because my primary goal was to add IPv6 support as transparent and 
backwards compatible as possible, i.e. with no API changes.

BTW, does HEAD still support any unix'ish platform that does not know 
about stuff like AF_INET6 and getaddrinfo()? I removed the ifdefery to 
switch between getaddrinfo() and gethostbyname(), because that was 
easier for the initial implementation, but I would add it back in a 
second step if it is really still needed.


cu
 	Reinhard