new resolver code nearing completion

[Thiago Macieira]

Hello,

the new resolver code I have been working on for the past few months has been 
stable for quite a few months now for me. I deem it thus to be nearly 
complete. However, as I had said in a previous mail, I don't even know if it 
will compile in other platforms (other than Linux).

Some people have been helping me by compiling the code and running. Judging by 
their feedback, I believe the code is behaving well for them too, without 
side-effects.

However, the socket code that accompanies this resolver code is at a halt, 
even though it's quite advanced. I do not think it will be ready for KDE 3.2. 
The resolver code, on the other hand, should be included. It even fixes one 
of our long outstanding bugs, in which asynchronous DNS lookups were 
impossible. (it also adds a workaround for buggy DNS servers, which is 
impossible with the current code)

In all, I think it is time more people started using this code. The ideal 
thing would be for this to be part of Qt as it was designed to be. But since 
Qt 3.2 has already been released, I don't think it will be included before 
their next major release (3.3 or 4.0). The next best thing would be to 
ressurrect the kdeqt-addon CVS module. Failing that, a subdir in kdelibs will 
make do.

In one way or another, the library has to be compiled before libkdecore, since 
the socket code in there uses this new code.

What does everyone think? I might add that 3.2 beta 1 is coming up and I'd 
like to have developers try the code for at least a week before we release 
beta 1.

PS: the library will be marked private so that we can still make BC changes as 
the API evolves.
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