Thread: ipv6

Hello.

Whatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed
to be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list? I believe Bruce was the
one who handled it.

Ola

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Ola Sundell <ola@miranda.org> writes:
> Whatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed
> to be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list?

Because Paul hasn't fixed the outstanding problems with it: as
submitted, it reverted the painfully-agreed-to formatting behavior
for the inet datatypes.

This could easily be dealt with (IMHO) by re-patching as we'd done
for 7.1.  But Paul had an additional agenda item: he wanted to see
our code restructured as a pure wrapper around the published libbind
subroutines.  I have no problem with that --- as long as someone
else does the legwork.  So far, neither Paul nor anyone else has.
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> Ola Sundell <ola@miranda.org> writes:
> > Whatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed
> > to be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list?
> 
> Because Paul hasn't fixed the outstanding problems with it: as
> submitted, it reverted the painfully-agreed-to formatting behavior
> for the inet datatypes.
> 
> This could easily be dealt with (IMHO) by re-patching as we'd done
> for 7.1.  But Paul had an additional agenda item: he wanted to see
> our code restructured as a pure wrapper around the published libbind
> subroutines.  I have no problem with that --- as long as someone
> else does the legwork.  So far, neither Paul nor anyone else has.

Yes, it is still in my review mailbox.  Not sure how to handle it.

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