Re: [lwip-devel] LWIP and LWIPv6 projects

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Kieran Mansley wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:48 -0500, Bill Auerbach wrote:
> > It may well be more effort to merge than to add IPv6 to the current
> > code
> > base.  (merge_time - IPv6_time_saved>  current_release +
> > IPv6_time). :-)
> I agree, and I think the result of a merge is likely to be not as good
> (for lwIP) as implementing IPv6 for lwIP from scratch (as Ivan's doing).
That's probably true, as well as the problem that IPv6/mixed seems to be 
the main target.

Anyway I didn't really mean to copy the IPv6 implementation from LWIPv6. 
Instead, I would very much favour LWIPv6 to use our source code without 
changes (as a pure library - at least the core functions maybe) to make 
sure any bugs found there are fixed for us, too (and the other way 
round, too, of course). The main work for this would be on the LWIPv6 
side, but we might have to change some things, too. It might even not 
work at all if it pushes the code away from targeting embedded systems.

As a starter for IPv6 on lwIP, I do favour the from-scratch-method (and 
I appreciate Ivan's efforts in that!).

Simon