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

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

On 18/03/2010 12:41, Twylite wrote:
> It is normal for software distributions to identify officially supported
> platforms, and to provide releases with identical (or equivalent)
> functionality on all officially supported platforms at the same time.
> To my knowledge the Tcl core has in the past followed this approach, and
> I am advocating that it continues to do so.
>
> Further, I understood from Reinhard's and Jeff's posts that there isn't
> a major technical impediment to Windows support.

Since the plan seems to be to get the IPv6 support working for Windows
as soon as possible, I'm not going to beat anyone up over it. Whether it
makes the cut for b2 is separate, but we don't need to panic over that.
What is important is that we get b2 done soon, and that we get IPv6
support (by which I mean for _all_ key target platforms[*]) in by the
time 8.6.0 escapes^Wis released.

(To LWV: I doubt that 8.7 could be done by the point it gets critical; I
just don't think we can push out a release that fast.)

Donal.
[* Single platform stuff can always be done in an extension, yes? ]