From: Marco Ceresa Date: 2011-05-24T22:11:01+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:36427] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4569] Replace IPAddr with IPAddress Issue #4569 has been updated by Marco Ceresa. Julien A wrote: > 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, Hello Julien I agree with you, there should be a decision whether to remove the standard library and having a set of standard gems distributed with each release. I think there was a long discussion on the mailing list months ago, unfortunately rather inconclusive. However, the situation today is quite different and it is my understanding that ruby-core is not moving in that direction. The standard library will stay, at least for the moment. And since I believe that IPAddr is obsolete and a bit bugged, I have opened this proposal to replace it with IPAddress. ---------------------------------------- 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: =begin 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/ =end -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org