Sorry for not replying sooner... was out of town for holiday this weekend.
I'll take a look at the code from CPAN and in the perl core and propose a
unified set of changes later this week. Sound good?
- Colin
On Friday 23 November 2001 03:36 pm, Brad Hughes wrote:
> 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
