> > The person who said they were going to work on the IP type has not
> > responded to my requests for a status, and nothing has been added in
> > that area in 6.4.
> 
> That would be me.  What I said was that it looked like the thing to do
> was to pick the best ideas the three implementations available, and
> that I, at least, would be doing that for my local needs.  I still
> plan to do that, but having recently become a father for the first
> time, and having lots of projects going at work, I haven't found time
> yet.  Unless someone beats me to it, I will be doing this soon, and
> probably within the next couple of weeks, but obviously not in time
> for the 6.4 beta period.  Besides, I have no idea how to integrate a
> new type as a built-in type, so someone else would have to do that.
> 
> -tih

well, this does not sound like progress.  i am willing to dive into PG
and learn how to integrate new types if noone else *who* *already* *knows*
how to do it is going to work on getting CIDR in before 6.4.

Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:35:52 -0700
Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Re: hackers-digest V1 #954 
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > > The person who said they were going to work on the IP type has not
> > > responded to my requests for a status, and nothing has been added in
> > > that area in 6.4.
> > 
> > That would be me.  What I said was that it looked like the thing to do
> > was to pick the best ideas the three implementations available, and
> > that I, at least, would be doing that for my local needs.  I still
> > plan to do that, but having recently become a father for the first
> > time, and having lots of projects going at work, I haven't found time
> > yet.  Unless someone beats me to it, I will be doing this soon, and
> > probably within the next couple of weeks, but obviously not in time
> > for the 6.4 beta period.  Besides, I have no idea how to integrate a
> > new type as a built-in type, so someone else would have to do that.
> > 
> > -tih
> 
> well, this does not sound like progress.  i am willing to dive into PG
> and learn how to integrate new types if noone else *who* *already* *knows*
> how to do it is going to work on getting CIDR in before 6.4.

	I would like to see the cidr type for v6.4 myself...and believe
Bruce was willing to do the actual integration work, if we had the code
for it...how long would it take to have code ready to be integrated, that
would give us a base to build from?


Fri, 4 Sep 1998 13:12:36 -0400 (EDT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: hackers-digest V1 #954 
> > well, this does not sound like progress.  i am willing to dive into PG
> > and learn how to integrate new types if noone else *who* *already* *knows*
> > how to do it is going to work on getting CIDR in before 6.4.
> 
> 	I would like to see the cidr type for v6.4 myself...and believe
> Bruce was willing to do the actual integration work, if we had the code
> for it...how long would it take to have code ready to be integrated, that
> would give us a base to build from?

i have already sent the code i'm using here.  i can send it again.  to whom?

Fri, 04 Sep 1998 10:58:01 -0700
Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: hackers-digest V1 #954 
Thus spake The Hermit Hacker
> 	I would like to see the cidr type for v6.4 myself...and believe
> Bruce was willing to do the actual integration work, if we had the code
> for it...how long would it take to have code ready to be integrated, that
> would give us a base to build from?

There was a lot of discussion about what types there should be and what
functions should operate on them.  Why not do the documentation first?
Once the documentation has been debugged, the code itself should be
relatively painless.  We'll use the documentation as a spec.

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Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Re: [HACKERS] Re: hackers-digest V1 #954