Perl and IPv6. It's alright now.

[Richard Foley]

> Once 5.14.0 is out, I'm hoping to suggest placing IO::Socket::IP in core
> too, alongside the older ::INET.
>
That sounds like a *very* good idea.

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Richard
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> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Duncan Garland wrote:
> > What's the situation now? Anybody doing a high-level search on the
> > subject is going to get the impression that Perl is "harmful". It's
> > clear that this is an exaggeration, but it's not clear whether or not
> > the problem has been solved.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Does anybody have a high-level summary of the current situation? Would
> > anybody like to write one? I don't think I'm the right person. I don't
> > know if it's alright now or not.
> 
> One high-level summary I co-wrote:
> 
>   http://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/perl-ipv6.html
> 
> Long story short:
> 
>   use IO::Socket::IP;
> 
> for a fully IPv6-aware replacement of IO::Socket::INET. Pure-perl, no
> non-core dependencies on 5.13.x / 5.14. Requires Socket::GetAddrInfo on
> earlier perls, which is XS-based.
> 
> Once 5.14.0 is out, I'm hoping to suggest placing IO::Socket::IP in core
> too, alongside the older ::INET.
> 
> HTH,