Re: [Evolution-hackers] ipv6 patch

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

FWIW this (the updated one) is now in 2.8 branch, and shlould be in head by the end of the day.

I'm betting by the end of next week we'll have some ArcaneUnix 5.1 portability bug reports, sigh.

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:06 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
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>     Lads,
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>     I was wondering if you could check the patch attached to:
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>     http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47821
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>     Apparently there are some build issues on redhat 9 - i'm waiting for dobey to mail me the error. 
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>     Some of the guys have been running it for a week or so with no problems, so we're looking at putting it into 2.0.1 real soon now and given its size and its portability issues, I wanted to make sure we didn't hit an explosion of portability issues - although really we're only concerned with modern distros at this point.
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>     We're actually thinking of removing support for systems without getaddrinfo entirely, the emulation code is always going to be a pain to maintain and the redefinition of system structures prone to portability issues (and i really don't want to have to abstract all the structures behind camel- or e-versions).
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>     Thanks,
>     Michael

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer