[forum] thoughts

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:38:04AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Todd T. Fries wrote:
> >Future direction I personally would like to see:
> >- support for IPv6
> >(are there _any_ plans to support IPv6 in X?).
> 
> Yes.  For Solaris 9, we added IPv6 support to Xsun.  As we did this we
> found a few areas the X protocols needed to be updated to support this,
> and we've been working with X.org to get the standards revised to include
> this.  We've produced a set of patches that add this support to X11R6.6
> & XFree86 4.3.0 that we are preparing to release as part of the public
> review of the standards changes in the near future.  (I'm currently doing
> some final testing of the 4.3.0 patches on Linux & interoperability testing
> between them & what we already released in Solaris 9.)

There was also mail about IPv6 patches on the debian-x mailing list. I
did not follow it though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther