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

[David G. <dav...@po...>]

Joe English wrote:

> Reinhard's proposing (and I kinda agree) to completely
> replace gethostbyname() / htons() / etc. with calls
> to the modern RFC 3493 API.  I think this is a good idea:
> kill the #ifdefs.

This extreme retired Tcl hacker who once messed around with ipv6 stuff
agrees, too.  All those damn port conversions back and forth from int to
char* was getting silly.