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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
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Subject: Re: Delete p5-Tie-DNS?
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:47:58PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Pursuant to the commit below, I looked at the p5-Tie-DNS port. While at the 
> time it was created (2001), it probably had some value, the port has 
> bitrotted badly, and hasn't kept up with the latest developments in 
> Net::DNS. Also, from the BUGS section of the man page:
> 
>        This project is very incomplete.  in-addr.arpa zone transfers aren't
>        yet supported.  This module ONLY supports named arguments, not posi-
>        tional.
> 
> I would therefore recommend that we delete the port altogether.

Go for it, I think.  We can always re-add it in the future if it gets
updated/modernized.

\Anton.
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