[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#21696) PATCH - ADNS used for reverse name lookups in server

[book <book@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Per I. Mathisen <per@...> writes:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21696 >
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> Parsing resolv.conf and windows registry does not sound good. How about we 
> just use http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/ ? It is what curl is 
> using.

ares_init.c +407, +567, parsing of windows registry and resolv.conf!
Well seems even the big boys don't avoid special casing to solve this
problem :D.

C-ares looks good though. The reason I didn't use a more evolved lib over
tADNS in the first place is because it would have been a pain to munge
the Makefiles to include another lib in 2.0 (I'm not an autoconf expert :/).

> We can strip it down, and include it along with lua and the other 
> dependencies we have in the repository.

Now that I have examples of other libs (lua) it should be easy to do.