From: Julien A <schmurfy@...>
Date: 2011-05-18T20:02:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36312] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4569] Replace IPAddr with IPAddress


Issue #4569 has been updated by Julien A.


Hi,

I just came across this issue and had a question about it: why not remove things from core instead of adding new ones ?
I love the IPAddress gem and I already use it on many projects but why including it in core ? (if anyone is using the current IPaddr it may be extracted as a gem)

From my point of view it will only makes upgrading the gem painful and require a ruby version upgrade instead of a simple gem install ipaddress,
I would love to see parts of the standard library go away, I may be an exception but I never used even 50% (and the truth may even be below 25% ) of it and I have used ruby for many years now. Most of the things are just better done by existing gems than standard libraries and installing/using them is now even easier than ever with bundler so why not just use it and aim for a small core ?

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Feature #4569: Replace IPAddr with IPAddress
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4569

Author: Marco Ceresa
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Akinori MUSHA
Category: lib
Target version: 


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Hello,

following the discussion we had a few months ago about replacing IPAddr with IPAddress [1]. Here is the formal request.

IPAddress is now at version 0.7.5 

URL: https://github.com/bluemonk/ipaddress

I think it's mature and backward compatible enough to be taken into consideration.

Regards,
Marco

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-core-google/browse_frm/thread/232ac6b06bacd0f5/
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