Plans for IPv6 support on windows?

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 18:02, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
>> On 01/18/2012 02:39 PM, Eion Robb wrote:
>>> Didn't we drop support for 95/98 a while ago?
>>> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Installing%20Pidgin#CanIrunPidginonWindows98ME
>>
>> Yes, but we *do* still support Windows 2000, which has no IPv6 support at all.
>
> If supporting Windows 2000 requires any extra work or reduces
> functionality in any way, then I'm in favor of dropping support for
> it.  It's kind of old.  It's been out of mainstream support for 6
> years and out of extended support for a year and a half.  Its
> replacements, Windows XP and Windows 2003, have been available for
> over 8 years.  People should have upgraded by now.


Yeah, I've been thinking along the same lines.

For 3.0.0, we can bump the required Windows version to XP and
hopefully that'll make adding IPv6 support "easy".

-D