<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Howdy all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christoph and I have more or less finished some work that updates Pd's networking and also fixes some bugs and a couple pain points:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* IPv6 support</div><div class="">* multicast</div><div class="">* netsend: optional from hostname & port outlet</div><div class="">* netsend: connectionless UDP, no more connection refused (fire & forget without having to manually reconnect)</div><div class="">* netreceive: settable timeout which defaults to 10 seconds (no more super-long frozen Pd)</div><div class="">* improved error printing with netsend and netrceive Find Last Error support</div><div class="">* various small bug fixes (no more polling errors after socket is closed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The pdsend & pdreceive utils are similarly updated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The discussion & pull request on Github: <a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/577" class="">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/577</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you can build Pd and want to try this out, the branch is called feature/netobject-updates</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The overall approach taken is to keep IPv4 as default and detect IPv6 addresses so this should not affect existing patches. The IP version handling should also degrade gracefully based if IPv6 is not available. An added bonus is hostnames now resolve (ie. <a href="http://google.com" class="">google.com</a>) and you can also listen on a hostname if your system can grab it (ie. computername.local).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One current limitation is that Tcl 8.5 does not have IPv6 support, so the core communication with the GUI remains IPv4.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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