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Subject: Re: 2.2 RELEASE SCHEDULE (proposal) [NOTE: 2.2 != 2.1.1]
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: 2001-03-05 3:10:58
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On Monday 05 March 2001 02:58, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
> > The 2.2 release, unlike the 2.1.1 release, will come with new functionality
> > and improvements in many areas of KDE.
> >
> > We aim for the following improvements among others:
> > * Better printing framework.
> > * IMAP support in kmail
> > * New koffice release.
>
> Question: should the IPv6 code be included?
>
> I've been working on it for the past few months and it is quite stable
> for me, even on a mixed KDE 2.0 with 2.1 kdelibs environment.
>
> However, that's only for me. I have had no reports whatsoever of anyone
> actually trying my patches, even though I know half a dozen people
> downloaded it (Apache logs). So I don't know how well it works or what
> breaks outside my system.
>
> And the reason I'm asking: the introduction of this new code so deep in
> the library core makes the whole thing alpha stage again, since we rely
> on sockets heavily.
Then now is the best time to commit it into CVS (HEAD obviously).
> So, my suggestion: the code is integrated into the sources, but it won't
> be enabled by default for 2.2. Or 2.2 beta 1 at least. It would be
> #ifdef'ed out.
If you ifdef it out (and require the 'user' to enable the code), then it's not
really useful - won't be more tested than right now with a separate patch...
Doesn't it only matter for IPv6 "users" anyway ? How does that work ?
Configure check ? Or rather runtime-detection of the type of address used ?
The primary goal should be that everything works the same for IPv4 users ;-)
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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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