Hi, Quoting Doug Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I didn't really look into xwhois module past just installing it. > I figured I would end up ITP'ing a libnet-xwhois-perl package to > satisy the dependency, but I didn't think it would be much of a > problem. It is slightly unnerving that the author appears to use > root as his primary login and that the changelog shows he likes > blank cvs commits... What did you find particularly troubling > when you looked at the code? Predictable temporary filenames (static ones, even - so multi-user usage can be a problem), hardcoded formats for whois replies, that don't work correctly with a lot of referred queries, undocumented - and afaik the Net::Whois module has been updated to behave similarly a while ago.
But we could share ofcourse, you do libnet-xwhois-perl, and i do ricochet? :) Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferred. finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my GnuPG/PGP key. Dance is the vertical expression of a horizontal intention.