Bug#172962: IPv6 support

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>]

One Sun engineer claimed on the XFree86 lists that the IPv6
implementation required a minor protocol change.  Of course, this may
have been mere bragging (of the ``look, we've done some really hard
work''), or else an indication of how they like to do complicated
things when it's not needed.  (Yes, they do; have you seen their i18n
framework?)

However, it does seem to imply that there is a risk of non-inter-
operable X11 implementations if your patches get in.  I'd be very
surprised if upstream accepted an IPv6 implementation (from you or
from somewhere else) before they see Sun's code.

I would suggest that you should wait until Sun publish their code, and
if then you think that yours is better (which it might very well be)
try to get upstream to use yours.

For your information, I seem to recall that there was a set of patches
for IPv6 in X11 done by INRIA or perhaps the University of Paris VI.
(That's not us, we're Paris VII.)

                                        Juliusz