On Jul 21 11:23, Andy Polyakov via RT wrote: > > I sent a patch to provide a solution for platforms that have addrinfo. > > Basically, if you do not have addrinfo, you cannot expect IPv6 to > > work. > > My comment was not about having IPv6 working without addrinfo, but about > not breaking platforms which don't have one. > > > I was looking for a feedback about this particular solution for > > platforms that support IPv6. > > And feedback is "no, it's not the way it should be done, because we > can't have different branches for platforms that have addrinfo and those > which don't." > > > Supporting legacy platforms was not my primary goal _at this time_ > > Well, it is ours at all times and you have to respect that:-) Well, the > goal is not really support legacy platform at all costs, but rather not > discontinue if compatibility can be achieved by maintaining certain > discipline. > [...] > OK, to be absolutely sincere. It's not about what Microsoft [or RedHat] > supports for the moment, but about exercising above mentioned > discipline. It's not about looking for excuses, but exploring maximum > possible extent of portability. Is it possible to write code which > adapts itself to run-time environment? Regardless whether run-time is > supported by vendor or not? How complicated is it? Forget that you're > RedHat employee, become programmer instead:-) But this is getting > off-topic. DSO_global_lookup was not the point I wanted to emphasize! > DSO_global_lookup is mentioned only because you'll have to cope with it > in HEAD branch. The main point is that changes of this character should > be *conditional* for backward compatibility and you have to play by this > rules. A.
Just as a side note to Jan. Cygwin is a Red Hat product as well and the current release doesn't support IPv6 and getaddrinfo for now. I have a developer branch which adds IPv6 support to Cygwin, but this work will hit the streets only in a few weeks or months. Of course I wouldn't like to see OpenSSL suddenly breaking on current version of Cygwin just because IPv6 (resp. getaddrinfo) is used unconditionally ;-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
