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

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Reinhard Max wrote:

> 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.

The two oldest machines I have available -- a 2002-vintage
Octane (IRIX 6.5) and a 1997-era AIX box -- both lack
getaddrinfo().  Last I checked, HEAD was still able to
build on both of those (with a bit of coaxing).

For context: RFC3493 was published in Feb 2003; it looks
like there were only minor changes from RFC2533 (Mar 1999).
(The original specification RFC2133 was published in Apr 1997,
but there were relatively major changes between that one
and RFC2533).

I would not strongly object to dropping support for older
Unices that lack getaddrinfo() (but will note that if we do,
then it's open season on stuff like sgtty/termio support,
the Solaris/Tru64 "strtod" bug, and any mention of MP-RAS
in tcl.m4.)



--Joe English

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