On 9/04/2013 12:45 AM, kevin dawson wrote:
> 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
>
>
That's interesting, but wouldn't the problem we are currently seeing be
related to the windows perl distribution?
I think Gabor said that DWIM Perl works fine...
Peter.
PS, sorry I haven't got the release done yet, I have the kids this week
so should be able to sit down and get things sorted out and rolled out.
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