Does anyone know which of the windows Perls are more in use?
I use and test on Strawberry.
Anyway, this isn't progressing much is it?
What's the view here, should we see if we can get a new Socket module
out to address this issue, or just release with lots of warnings about
the problem and how to get around it?
On 22/03/2013 7:19 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Collecting my thoughts:
>
> Though I agree with the question of Awazawi, I'd ask it a bit differently:
> Do we really need to rely on IO::Socket::IP, or can we make it an
> optional dependency limiting some feature?
>
> I think most Windows users will use the DWIM Perl installed - I just
> will have to make a new release -
> I would not worry about that, but I'd probably print this information
> at the beginning of the Makefile.
> Something like this:
>
> if (IsWindows and IO::Socket::IP is not installed yet with a version
> that we can live with ) {
> tell the user to first install the older version of the module (and
> even print the command)
> then quit the installation process
> }
>
> I just checked
> http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Socket-IP.html#IO-Socket-IP-0.19
> and there quite a few failure reports for Windows.
> In any case I just submitted two more and re-launched my smokers on Windows.
>
> Have PEVANS seen all those reports?
>
> Azawawi, could you offer your help to PEVANS to fix the issue on Windows?
>
> I think I'd just go forward with the release - with that addition in
> the makefile.
>
> Gabor
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