Re: [cp-patches] [Patch] java.net.InetAddress

[Michael Koch]

On Friday 15 October 2004 14:43, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 15:07, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> >>Michael Koch wrote:
> >>>On Wednesday 13 October 2004 13:42, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> >>>>I was thinking about IPv6 addresses, wouldn't they go wrong
> >>>> with your code?
> >>>
> >>>Ah, you are right. Note that GNU classpath has nearly no IPv6
> >>>support. I want to look into this soon. The version in libgcj
> >>> has some more IPv6 support. I dont know yet how
> >>> complete/functional it is. This needs testing. I would vote to
> >>> get IPv4 correct for now/first.
> >>>
> >>>Note that your solution might work for IPv6 but does not have
> >>> to.
> >>
> >>Michael, you may want to check out Kaffe's IPv6 code for
> >>InetAddress (& pure java DNSJava integration) from Tim Stack,
> >>Guilhem & Ito. Afaik it works well for IPv6. [1] I don't know
> >> what Tim's status is wrt to FSF paperwork, though.
> >
> > I've added a FIXME comment for now and commited it for now. I
> > also filed a Classpath bug about missing IPv6 support in GNU
> > classpath to better track this issue.
>
> Thanks, Michael.
>
> Mark is in touch with Tim wrt to getting the paperwork done, so
> that the code from Kaffe can be merged into GNU Classpath. I'll
> take a look at your changes and see how well they integrate into
> what Kaffe currently has.

Perhaps it would be better to merge the IPv6 code between kaffe and 
libgcj first as both seem to support it more then GNU classpath.
This makes is afaik easier.


Michael