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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > Thanks! I really would be quite thrilled to have 5.14 have proper IPv6 > support. I'm curious if there's a reason to port the IPv6 functions > "directly" into the core rather than to "adopt" Socket6.pm. http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2008/02/ipv6-support-in-programming-li.html http://eintr.blogspot.com/2009/03/bad-state-of-ipv6-in-perl.html Adopting Socket6 (and IO::Socket::INET6) into the core would solve some of the issues, but having a unified single module interface seems preferable. Of course, given where we already are in history, modules will need to continue to optionally use Socket6 and IO::Socket::INet6 for backwards compatibility anyways, but that argument can then be used to kill any kind of simplification for future benefit. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next