[Haskell-cafe] Re: IPv6?

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:10:35 +0000 (UTC) From: John Goerzen Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: IPv6? To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Message-ID:

On 2004-10-08, Simon Marlow wrote:

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On 07 October 2004 21:43, John Goerzen wrote:

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Network.Socket in GHC6 seems to be restricted to IPv4, despite the prsence of AF_INET6. How do I support IPv6 in Haskell?

You write some code to handle IPv6 and send it to us for inclusion in Network.Socket ;-)

OK, fair enough, let's go down that path for a moment :-)

I probably could figure out how to do that based on the existing IPv4 code. Some small parts of IPv6 support are already there.

However, I'd have two questions:

1. Wouldn't there need to be some sort of discussion first to ensure that all the compiler/interpreter implementors do it the same way?

2. I don't know anything about the autotools stuff save that it does not get along very well with me. If I submit a patch that assumes that IPv6 support is available, would somebody be able to add the appropriate tests and ifdefs around it to ensure that it really is?

-- John

John, Maybe I'm badly informed but there is hardly any usage of IPv6. What's driving you to want to use it? Dominic.