Re: [perl #75740] IPv6 support missing in perl5.10, perl5.12

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:00 +0200, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 June 2010 18:39, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What's missing in the CORE:
> > - getaddrinfo (gethostbyname gives only IPv4)
> > - inet_pton, inet_ntop (similar to inet_aton, inet_ntoa but also for
> >  IPv6)
> 
> Note that Configure already probes for those functions.
> 
> > - support for IPv6 in Net::* Modules (Net::SMTP, Net::FTP.. are bound to
> >  use IO::Socket::INET which does not do IPv6)
> > - comfortable use of sockets similar to IO::Socket::INET6
> >
> > What help could CPAN provide:
> > - Socket6 - which provides getaddrinfo, inet_ntop, inet_pton..
> 
> I'd vote against : looking at it, its compilation process is too
> complex, it contains an incomplete implementation of getaddrinfo (used
> when the system has none), and its license is complex.

I want to -1 this as well. (ok, so I'm not a committer yet.)

Reason being that insane compilation process. It did NOT compile on
Strawberry (I wanted to include it in Professional!)

--Curtis

> We could provide instead a bare-bones module that just wraps around
> getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, inet_ntop and inet_pton (maybe other ones).
> 
> What about the IP:: namespace for those ? (or we could also stuff them
> in POSIX::)

NOT POSIX::. But otherwise a good idea.

--Curtis Jewell
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