[haiku-development] Re: Fwd: Re: Question : Haiku + Transmission

François Revol wrote:

I replied to him privately :

 Thank you for providing a reasonable alternative that will hopefully
allow Haiku to use Transmission 1.51+  in the intertrim.   I'll pass
your message regarding ticket #1682 to fellow Haiku developers and
will do my best to get the ball rolling for implementing both IPv6 and 
MiniUPnP, as well as identifying other potential issues.  Once again,
I appreciate your consideration for OS's that aren't Windows, Mac or
use a Unix-or-BSD-like kernel.  :)
We could still add IPv6 stubs to Haiku, but then other apps will probe it and start trying to use them. 

This doesn't look any cleaner to me.
They already do - Haiku has a number of IPv6 stubs (AF_INET6, inet_pton, getaddrinfo/getnameinfo...). Since apps don't check for every single function they require, many will assume IPv6 support and fail to build because Haiku is lacking a few more defines/routines.
IMO providing an apparently complete IPv6 implementation would do more good than harm (as long as it works when used with IPv4 addresses, of course). 

--
Eric

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