Subject: Re: undocumented but used functions

Re: undocumented but used functions

From: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:54:05 +0100

Bert Belder wrote:
>> I noticed that acountry.c and ahost.c, two of our demo examples, use
>> ares_inet_ntop() and ares_inet_pton().
>>
>> None of these functions are part of our documented public API and I would
>> like to clean this up.
>>
>> Anyone who feels strongly enough about this subject to speak up for either
>> making them part of the API or for properly removing the use of them from
>> the examples?
>
> For a long time we used these functions in node.js. It's quite useful to
> have an implementation of inet_pton/inet_ntop available that works the same
> everywhere, especially if you care about windows support.
>

FWIW I also use those in pycares, I'd appreciate if they stay around.

Regards,
Received on 2013-02-14