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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
January 27, 2012 17:06
Subject:
Re: IO::Socket::INET documentation
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans
<leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
> Actually while we're on it, could we deprecate the whole thing and
> wholesale point people at IO::Socket::IP instead? The latter is a dropin
> replacement of IO::Socket::INET that can also talk IPv6 too.
>
> What with IPv6's increasing prominence these days, and also the upcoming
> IPv6 launch day in June, it would be nice if core had plenty of
> IPv6-friendly things.

Why is it again that we don't have it in core yet? Or converted our
toolchain (HTTP::Tiny in particular) to it? Is there any reason other
than inertia?

Leon
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