[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] IPv6 support v.2

[Dave Yeo]

On 11/26/07 08:36 am, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
>>> 3) wait some time, and see if people complain. Implement a getaddrinfo replacement
>>>     in an external library (maybe the libossupport - or whatever is the name -
>> libossupport is a nice name :)
>>
>>
>>>      that Michael is requesting?),
>> iam not requesting it
> 
> Sorry, I used a bad wording. I should have said "suggesting".
> 
> 
>> i just strongly think that os_support.* and all
>> similar hacks belong into a lib different from libav*
> 
> I agree with this, and I'll work on moving this code in libossupport
> 
> 
> [...]
>>> Again, this is just my opinion. I do not want to force anyone to follow it.
>>> If people agree that this is the way to go, I can help following the path I
>>> indicated.
>> i agree in general with it but id be more evil and just disable the IPV4 code
>> instead of "ensure that the "getaddrinfo" code works well ..." that is if it
>> works on your system ...
> 
> Well, I can already see that we would have problems on mingw systems...
> That's why I'd like to have a fix for that before removing the IPv4 code.
> 
> But if someone else removes the IPv4 code I will not complain (I just do not
> want to be responsible for its removal now).
> 
> 
> 				Luca

FYI, OS/2 currently does not have getaddrinfo and I doubt that it will 
ever have IPv6 support.
Dave