> Here is a reply from Charles, who as you recall was the person who > initially queried me. > > (from ticket #1682 on Transmission's Trac) > Comment(by charles): > I mostly agree with livings124 on this. I don't think it's > unreasonable > for a network-intensive program to require ipv6 hooks in 2009. Still, this doesn't require all protocols to be mixed up together. They could be separated in their own files for clarity... > > One possibility, until Haiku actually gets ipv6 support, would be > for you > to maintain a patch that you could apply when building for Haiku. > If > there are other, non-ipv6 related issues that could be fixed in the > main > Transmission codebase, I'd be happy to take a look at those. That's what we call a hot potato in france... just forward the problem to someone else. > 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. François.