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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:00 +0200, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgs@consttype.org> wrote: > On 14 June 2010 18:39, sullr@cpan.org <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > > What's missing in the CORE: > > - getaddrinfo (gethostbyname gives only IPv4) > > - inet_pton, inet_ntop (similar to inet_aton, inet_ntoa but also for > > IPv6) > > Note that Configure already probes for those functions. > > > - support for IPv6 in Net::* Modules (Net::SMTP, Net::FTP.. are bound to > > use IO::Socket::INET which does not do IPv6) > > - comfortable use of sockets similar to IO::Socket::INET6 > > > > What help could CPAN provide: > > - Socket6 - which provides getaddrinfo, inet_ntop, inet_pton.. > > I'd vote against : looking at it, its compilation process is too > complex, it contains an incomplete implementation of getaddrinfo (used > when the system has none), and its license is complex. I want to -1 this as well. (ok, so I'm not a committer yet.) Reason being that insane compilation process. It did NOT compile on Strawberry (I wanted to include it in Professional!) --Curtis > We could provide instead a bare-bones module that just wraps around > getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, inet_ntop and inet_pton (maybe other ones). > > What about the IP:: namespace for those ? (or we could also stuff them > in POSIX::) NOT POSIX::. But otherwise a good idea. --Curtis Jewell -- Curtis Jewell csjewell@cpan.org http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/ perl@csjewell.fastmail.us http://csjewell.comyr.org/perl/ "Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c Strawberry Perl for Windows betas: http://strawberryperl.com/beta/Thread Previous