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On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * What Jesse actually said:
> > I'm trying hard to get us to cut down on what ships in core, not
> > expand it. I don't really see the value proposition of adding
> > IO::Socket::IP to the core if IO::Socket::INET works well enough to
> > bootstrap CPAN from an IPv6 mirror.
>
> It seems you might have said "it isn't" but it was not clear.
Oh, then yes. ::INET is IPv4-only and would break assumptions by user
code if it wasn't.
> * What else Jesse actually said:
> > I'd love us not to ship two implementations of the same functionality
> > if we can get away with it. You didn't comment on my suggestion that
> > we turn ::INET into a wrapper around ::IP. Is that a plausible path
> > forward?
>
> Your reply to that seemed to be "I'll think about it." I don't see any
> subsequent work.
10-second thought:
package IO::Socket::INET;
use base qw( IO::Socket::IP );
sub new
{
shift->SUPER::new( Family => AF_INET, @_ );
}
1;
Is probably the way to go about implementing that.
I didn't want to do that though because that requires that ::IP -really-
can cope with everything ::INET can, whereas the advantage of them being
separate modules is that each user of ::INET can, on a case-by-case
basis, upgrade their use to ::IP and check that it works for them. This
way feels much safer, at the cost of having two modules in core.
> * Nick asked:
> > To which I'd add, does it work on VMS? VOS? Does NetWare do IPv6?
>
> Your answer here was, "If the OS does what various standards say, yes."
>
> Do we have any tests?
See
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/cpan/IO-Socket-IP/t/04local-client-v6.t
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/cpan/IO-Socket-IP/t/05local-server-v6.t
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/cpan/IO-Socket-IP/t/06local-cross-v6.t
Tests that if the machine supports IPv6 at all, that IO::Socket::IP
copes correctly there.
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