Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:49:28AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:33:36PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>> >Now as to whether it should be spun as a separate dll/import library
>> >(-lresolv), is another matter, entirely.  Of course, feel free to
>> >disagree, as I could be wrong ;-).
>> 
>> I think it belongs in newlib, too.  Anyone willing to take a shot at
>> getting it into newlib?
>
>Is newlib the right place? minires uses the Windows API to find the dns 
>servers and the domain name. Is there a POSIX way to get those?
>If so, it could be implemented in Cygwin. 
>In the long run the lookups should use the Windows resolver (on 
>systems >= Win2000). BTW, that's why it's 0.95 and not 1.00

I was thinking that putting this in newlib would potentially provide a
base for other systems that needed similar functionality.  I'm not aware
of any prohibition against using the Windows API in newlib.

I'm not against putting this into a winsup/resolver directory either.  I
just thought it would be more universally useful in newlib.

cgf