Bug#172962: IPv6 support
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:20:30AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > No there is no risk at all. Once X.org will release IPv6 upstream this
> > patch set will be obsolete and can be removed. I do not see much
> > more than: X11R6.7 will include IPv6. and this let me think they will
> > more or less base their work on what hes been already done.
> It would be a pity to see all this work going down the drain when 6.7
> is released.
Well I understand now better what you mean. It wasn't too clear (to me
atleast) from your first email.
> >
> > And anyway most of the patches that are here could be sent easily
> > upstream and they come out from user experiences and requests.
> Actually this is what I wanted to encourage you to do. Otherwise we
> might end up with incompatible command line options, etc.
Actually my plan was atleast to have a big run of the patches before
submitting them upstream. Even if I have tried to test them in all
possible situations this does not exclude possible errors that will take
less time to fix here than upstream.
Thanks for your suggestion. I appreciate them.
Fabio
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