IPv6 support improving, yet paradoxically breaking
[email protected] (Rocco Caputo) Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:11:41 -0500
| Newsgroups | perl.poe |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi there. I'm about to break IPv6 support for existing IPv6 users of POE. You can avoid this breakage by vetting and installing Socket::GetAddrInfo as soon as possible. POE's IPv6 name resolution is moving to Socket::GetAddrInfo, since that module's more portable, more supported, and more future-proof. It, or something like it, is scheduled to be in Perl 5.14.0. Socket6 is redundant once Socket::GetAddrInfo is used, so I'll be removing support for it. This means the conditional IPv6 code in POE will look for Socket::GetAddrInfo instead of Socket6. Which means existing IPv6 houses will switch down to IPv4 if they upgrade POE without also installing Socket::GetAddrInfo. [Also announced at @rcaputo on Twitter, albeit with much less detail.] -- Rocco Caputo - [email protected]