Re: IO::Socket::IP for perl-ldap?

On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Peter Marschall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with IO::Socket::IP becoming more and more widespread (it is said to become a 
> part of the standard modules shipped with Perl 5.20), I am wondering i should 
> switch perl-ldap over to it too?
> 
> My idea is to prefer IO::Socket::IP over IO::Socket::INET6 if the former one 
> is installed, but fall back to the latter if it isn't.
> 
> But there's a downside too:
> With IO::Socket::IP, the option Timeout to Net::LDAP->new() will be ignored.
> 
> If it wasn't for this change, I would already have switched, as some recent 
> versions of Strawberry Perl for Windows broke perl-ldap with IO::Socket::INET6
> 
> What's your opinion?

Are the devs for IO::Socket::IP open to adding a patch to make timeout work?

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