On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
> inet_pton is preferrable, as it supports IPv6.
> That is, inet_pton should trump inet_aton if both are available.
Probably, but that would require testing to see if inet_pton is available.
That information is not available from perl5's Configure, and there
currently is no infrastructure in parrot for making such a test.
Obviously that needs to change eventually.
> On Mac OS X, the preferred technique would be to weak link with
> inet_pton and test for its availability at run-time. (inet_pton is not
> available on 10.1, but is available on 10.3.) This would be another case
> entirely.
Yes, indeed, that's the sort of thing that makes testing for function
availability so much fun :-).
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
