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Re: Can we now assume IPv6 support on all target OSes?


From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 23:59:47 +0200

On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 11:20:08AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
Currently, there are a few bits of code in Wireshark that check, at compile time, whether INET6 is defined.

For Windows nmake builds, we appear to hard-wire INET6 to be defined; the user would have to edit config.nmake to 
turn it off.

For autotools builds, we go through a long series of tests for various flavors of IPv6 support.

For CMake builds, we appear to hard-wire INET6 to be defined.

Is there any reason to continue to try to handle OSes with no IPv6 support, or should we just get rid of the INET6 
#define and unconditionally include the code that it currently controls?

IIRC we talked about that some time ago (or maybe I just wanted to do that ;)
IMO we should set it to always defined for now and restore detection in case
of (valid) complaints. I don't yet count the fact that I haven't seen any cmake
complaints about this. If no complaints come along we should remove the precompiler
stuff on about 3-4 months.

Ciao
     Jörg
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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