Bug#172962: IPv6 support
> 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.
from a very fast investigation X.org only states that R6.7 will support
IPv6. I will have to download the cvs code and see myself.
>
> 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
>
Just to be clear to everyone the main ipv6 patch is NOT mine, as i stated
in different places of my bug report and I have never stated that is a
major change or used big words to make my patch set looks better than
other. My patches are there to make the KAME patch working on linux and at
the same time i took the possibility to add a few things that are optional
but that i feel usefull in an IPv6 environment (also behind feedbacks from
other users of my pkgs)
The plan is to push them upstream after a large run. We made a lot of
tests but they cannot cover all the possible situations that all debian
users can face. At the same time it is possible to revert back very
easily if something is wrong since a cmd line option will simply disable
ipv6.
I was not aware of other implementations when i started merging and
working on this one (talking about Sun and INRIA). Are they publically
available?? any URL??
Thanks
Fabio
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