On Sunday 2009-05-17 18:59, jamal wrote: >On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 18:39 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Compatibility is the ultimate killer argument against about anything. > >Once you have user of an API, that arguement becomes hard to defend. >It is certainly a lesson learnt on the development of the >internet: You cant just replace IPV4, TCP, NAT and a lot of other >protocols and practises that people are using. You can incrementally >"fix them". You can the parallel provide the new way (IPv6). The hurdle with IPv6 is just like patches that would add a copy of a function with a slightly different signature or semantics: it would be met with reluctance. I already given up on submission of Xtables-addons modules to upstream for the same reason because there are so much "no no"s coming back. I don't get it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
