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[Python-Dev] IPv6 in Windows binary distro

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Oct 14 15:21:04 EDT 2003 
> - Should the next binary release (2.3.3, scheduled for the end of 2003)
> include this support?

It would be a new feature, wouldn't it?

> - Should there be any attempts to detect this support in the header
> files automatically (black magic to me), or should the platform sdk be
> required to compile Python with IPv6?

The Windows build doesn't do any feature detection, does it?  All it's
got is a hand-edited config file.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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