Il 28 giugno 2019 22:09:10 CEST, Henrik K <[email protected]> ha scritto: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:01:17PM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote: >> Hi, >> latest Geoip2 Perl library has this phrase in their docs: >> ----------------------------------------- >> This module is deprecated and will only receive fixes for major bugs >and security vulnerabilities. New features and functionality will not >be added. >> ----------------------------------------- >> I fear that Perl will not be supported in the near future and we will >have to drop Geoip2 support sooner or later. > >Nothing makes me believe that the module will stop working, it clearly >says >it will be supported enough to be in a working state. There's no >reason why >they would suddently change the standard MMDB file format and contents, >if >they did that, no API would work.
That's just a heads-up, I think the module will continue to work as-is, but if there are better alternatives they can be evaluated, perl-Geoip2 is also not present in main Linux distribution akaik. Giovanni
