[haiku-development] Re: Fwd: Re: Question : Haiku + Transmission
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:58:02 +0100 CET
> 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.
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