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

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

On 2010-03-18, at 9:57 AM, Reinhard Max wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 at 17:41, Joe English wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> Hmm - how about a compat/getaddrinfo.c so that we can still support 
> those platforms, but avoid putting back the ifdef'ery and duplicated 
> logic into tclUnixSock.c and friends?

IMO this is a place where we draw the line on Tcl support.  Those are both well beyond EOL systems by their manufacturers and should have no expectation for IPv6 support.  I suspect Joe having them is more a curiosity than a business need.  Someone actually running those in production just wouldn't update to Tcl 8.6.

We need to spend our time supporting today's systems and to some extent yesterdays, but not yesterdecades.  ;)

Jeff