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Re: [lwip-devel] RE: IPv6 development status
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Kieran Mansley |
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Re: [lwip-devel] RE: IPv6 development status |
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Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:44:50 +0100 |
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:17 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Renzo Davoli wrote:
[snip]
> LWIP and LWIPv6 have two different domains of application: LWIP is
> (also? primarily?) for embedded systems, then the main focus is to be
> "light weight". Our focus is to the "enough" light to stay in a
> library,
> but we need a number of features that are useless on embedded systems.
I think this sums up why it would not make sense to combine the two:
they have conflicting goals. I'm happy to see lwIP gain some proper
support for IPv6 but it must be done in a way that avoids compromising
the lightweight goal of lwIP.
Kieran