[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] IPv6 support v.2
François Revol
revol
Sat Nov 10 18:20:24 CET 2007
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> [...]
> > > also i think lack of the standard functions has to be shown to be
> > > real on
> > > some major platform before any form of getaddrinfo() can be added
> >
> >
> > Win2k? Not sure about BeOS or the smaller OSes that ffmpeg appears
> > to
> > support one way or another. Not that I care much about BeOS, but
> > Win2k could
> > be a possible interest point for me, at least for the time being,
> > it still
>
> does the network stuff work on win2k at all currently?
> and somehow i think that its cygwins/mingws job to provide minimal
> implementations of missing functionality, instead of every
> application
> itself containing it (1 vs n code, maintaince, bugs, bug fixes, ...)
It should still work on BeOS, with the pending required patch that is.
> for other OSs its similar IMO, the "tradition" of providing every
> missing
> standard function in every application is just idiotic
It's just what "porting" means... believe me I had much harder things
to port already.
> but again, iam not against a seperate lib in svn which does exactly
> that,
> that is provide such minimal missing standard functionality for OSs
> which
> lack it
> such a lib could be used by other applications (even ones unrelated
> to
> audio/video) and i think that would be quite nice ...
That's what I did for BeOS once, I wrote a libposix, but it was quite
painful to maintain. IIRC autotools-based apps already have some
replacement funcs (getpass, ...), we could pick some of those.
The poll() workaround could go there as well.
Fran?ois.
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