[Python-Dev] IPv6 and Windows

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:48:03PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> The problem is that the library patches (httplib, ftplib, etc) do use
> getaddrinfo to find out how to contact a remote system, which is the
> right thing to do IMO. So even if the IPv6 support can be activated
> only if desired, getaddrinfo absolutely has to work.

Why ? Why can't those parts be 'if it exists'-ed out ? We do it for SSL
support. I'm only comfortable with the IPv6 patch if it's optional, or can
at least be disabled. I haven't looked at the patch, but why is getaddrinfo
absolutely necessary, if the code works without it now, too ?

> So the only question then is where we get an implementation of these
> functions if the system doesn't provide one. itojun has suggested the
> WIDE libraries; since they apparently don't compile on Windows, I've
> suggested the MS TP emulation. If the latter is not acceptable, we
> either have to fix the WIDE implementation to work on Windows also;

> As for the problems Mark reported: I think they can get fixed.

What about the zillion other 'obscure' ports ? OS/2 ? Palm ? MacOS 9 ;) If
this patch can't be zero-impact-if-necessary, I'm a firm -1 on it. But I
don't think it can't, it just takes more work.

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