On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Frederic Brehm wrote: > >My question was about IPv6 support in CVS. If anybody is working on it, or > >if it is even included in some devel release. If not, it was just a hint > >for those, who want to enhance CVS to be up to date with the next > >generation internet technology ;-) > > > >Details how to adapt existing apps to be ipv6-aware can be found eg. here: > >http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/ > > The web site contains a section: > > 2. use getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() everywhere. > > getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() are new address independent > variant that hides every gory detail in name-to-address > translation, or vice versa. > > So I guess that the next generation Internet technology contains the > notion of host names. The cvs command would use the hostname in > > cvs -d :pserver:user@hostname/some/path/cvsroot co module > > Does CVS have to be modified to use one of those two ipv6 functions? IMHO yes. M. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
