[Monotone-devel] IPv6 addresses and ports (and netxx)

[Lapo Luchini]

I've noticed that monotone doesn't accept the quite common form 
"[::1]:4691" to specify both IPv6 address and port explicitly... I taken 
a look at the netsync code and discovered that well, except for the case 
":4691" where only the port is specified, it's not managed by monotone 
at all but by netxx's Address (specifically by function parse_uri, in 
address.css:178).
That code has to reference to '[' whatsoever and says "if it has more 
than one column, it's IPv6 and exit here"; the code to address "column 
port-number" follows that line.

Which leads me to the following question: is upstream netxx still alive? 
I see the homepage is no more, and the best Google has to suggest about 
netxx is the MacOSX port... in that case, should I apply a patch to our 
netxx directly? Well, I guess I should do that either ways ;)

    Lapo