exarkun@divmod.com schrieb:
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:12:18 +0200, Stefan Behnel behnel_ml@gkec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de wrote:
I'm curious: how much work would it be to enable IPv6 support in twisted.internet?
Not very much. About a year ago, I wrote this: http://cvs.twistedmatrix.com/cvs/trunk/sandbox/exarkun/ipv6.py?view=markup&a... This is no longer how I'd like to see IPv6 supported in Twisted, but it gives an idea of how few changes are required.
That really doesn't seem to be a big change in the current code base. It's not very object oriented, though, so as you said, it would have to be rewritten to integrate it with Twisted.
However, I think the address handling would be a thing worth generalizing. I found this on the web:
I already had to adapt it a bit as some code parts are somewhat clumsy, but I find it a nice abstraction for IP addresses. If such a thing was part of Twisted, the interfaces for handling IPv[46] could become completely transparent.
You could even cut them into the existing interfaces:
----------------------------------------- from IPy import IP def connectTCP(host, port, ...) if isinstance(host, str): ... # use original IPv4 implementation - or convert host to IP(host) elif isinstance(host, IP): ... # connect either with IPv4 or IPv6, depending on host.version() -----------------------------------------
Stefan