[Python-Dev] IPv6

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:18:27PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> What's out IPv6 story?  I recall that someone once sent me patches,
> but they didn't work for me.  Is it time to try again?  In certain
> circles IPv6 support in Python would be enough to switch programming
> languages... :-)

Radical suggestion:

  Toss out a ton of the platform-specific stuff in Python and use the Apache
  Portable Runtime (APR). It has IPv6 in it, but it could also help with
  loading shared libraries, threading, mmap'd files, sockets, etc.

(it won't replace *all* of Python's platform specific stuff; I think Python
 has more coverage than APR does)

Could simplify a number of things for Python, and reduce some of the
maintenance costs...

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/