On 2013-04-01 01:21, Peter Lavender wrote:
> 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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If you are keeping up to date with p5p you would now that IO::Socket::IP 
has started it's journey into perl core

regards
kevin

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