Re: TCL and IPv6

Michael Schlenker wrote:
There is a TIP that Tcl 8.5 should support IPv6, but no one stepped
forward and pushed it hard enough so that it happened.

The problem is/was that most of the people who seem to want to write
the code to do IPv6 also want to push lots of other kinds of sockets
at the same time, and that's not easy to swallow (or test, or even
just make work on more than one platform). If someone stuck to just
"allow the OS to pick v4 or v6", that'd be fairly easy to make work.
It'd also probably not take a TIP to do, assuming people don't want
close control over the kind of route to a particular host.

Donal.

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