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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:04:15AM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > > That sounds like a really bad idea. > > > > Do you realize how much existing code there is out there using > > IP::Socket::INET that you would casually deprecate? ****LOTS**** > > > > Think of programs that people have installed because they were > > part of some package they installed. What are those people > > supposed to do if you go deprecating IO::Socket::INET ? > > I agree deprecating wouldn't be a good idea, but discouraging in favor > of IO::Socket::IP would be helpful. Oops, I didn't mean "deprecate" as such, some sloppy wording of mine there. I'm well aware of the mass breakage that would result were we to remove it, so no I didn't mean to suggest we do anything of that sort. I simply meant we should rework bits of documentation, suggest that people use ::IP in favour of ::INET where possible, have a go at starting to change bits of other core modules that use ::INET, and so on. A soft "deprecation" in documentation only. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next