Re: [HACKERS] 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?