Inconsistency in IPAddr / IpAddr?

[sbromberger]

Perhaps a silly question:

IpAddr is in deprecated.jl in 0.4.x. It's both exported (export TcpSocket, UdpSocket, IpAddr) and reassigned (const IpAddr = IPAddr). If I understand it correctly, this produces an apparent inconsistency in which a deprecated object (IpAddr) is visible and returns IPAddr, but the non-deprecated object(IPAddr) is not exported. I'm not sure what the correct behavior is here, but it seems to me that either IPAddr should be exported, or NEITHER IPAddr nor IpAddr should.

in 0.3, IpAddr is not exported:

julia> IpAddr
ERROR: IpAddr not defined

julia> Base.IpAddr
IpAddr

julia> VERSION
v"0.3.4"

What is the proper behavior here?

Refs:

• Ipnets / IPAddr compatibility Compat.jl#35
• IpAddr has changed to IPAddr in 0.4.0 Compat.jl#28

[mlubin]

Given that IpAddr wasn't exported previously, it seems like an error to export it now that it's deprecated.

[sbromberger]

I'd tend to agree, especially since IPAddr is an abstract class. The reason this is important is because it determines how to fix the lingering problem introduced in JuliaLang/Compat.jl#35 and whether or not the fix proposed in JuliaLang/Compat.jl#36 will (or should be allowed to) work.