Jonathan Stowe wrote:
[...]
> Colin, I have copied you in on this because it appears that you have made
> the biggest changes to the core version and its really going to have to
> come down to you and Rob collaborating to maintain a single version in the
> end of the day ... whilst I don't think that this is going to be a
> showstopper I think that it should be considered extremely desirable that
> we have a single version of Net::Ping before 5.8.0 is released.
> 
> I will mediate if necessary ....

However this all turns out, please make sure not to lose the $^O test

     croak("icmp ping requires root privilege") if ($> and $^O ne 'VMS');

which is in the core 2.02 version delivered in 5.6.1;  the 2.06 version
from CPAN has

     croak("icmp ping requires root privilege") if $>;

Thanks,

Brad

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