RE: IPv6

[Michal Svec]

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:address@hidden/some/path/cvsroot co module
> 
> Does CVS have to be modified to use one of those two ipv6 functions?

IMHO yes.
M.