Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 1232] The default makefile is unhelpful …

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Phil Pennock
CC: exim-dev, Jeremy Harris
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 1232] The default makefile is unhelpful for IPv6
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2012-04-23 at 22:56 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>> On 2012-04-23 22:25, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>>>           Resolution|                            |FIXED

>>
>> For the future: when do we enable IPV6 by default?
>
> There was a recent RFC on what Internet connectivity means, which
> includes IPv6, so we have an argument in our favour any time we do make
> the change.
>
> We have a README.UPDATING which should get a warning of this sort of
> change.
>
> I think that the best way forward will be to pick a release, then in the
> previous release's announcement mail include a note warning that the
> subsequent release will enable IPv6 by default. We can do that in the
> 4.78 announcement and then enable in 4.79, if there's a general
> consensus to go for it.


I'd be tempted to say that enabling IPv6 by default qualified
a release for a "0" - perhaps 4.80 ?

Phil Hazel didn't usually use all the numbers.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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