Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
This proposal adds two standard protocol-independent functions to Network.BSD to allow the networking code to work with both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses and protocols.
There have been two comments so far.
Sven Panne would like to see a portable (i.e. not platform dependent)
set of constants defined in the package. I have no problem with this,
so I'll trim the list down to ones that are known to work everywhere.
Peter Simons suggests that in fact Network.Socket would be a better home
for all of the new functionality, instead of Network.BSD, as the IPv6
entry points and constants do not have a BSD heritage (they're defined
in RFC 2553, and available on all modern operating systems under the
same names). I agree. Furthermore, adding this functionality to
Network.Socket will mean that new code will never need to import
Network.BSD.
As a consequence, I'm going to redo the patch, and tender it for
consideration again in a day or two, then extend the discussion period
for another week.