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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > I think it's time to seriously consider removing CGI.pm from the core > distribution. It is no longer what I'd point *anyone* at for writing *any* > sort of web code. It is in the core, as far as I know, because once it was the > state of the art, and a major reason for many people to use the language. AFAIK, it's in core because perl 4 shipped with all then-known libraries and CPAN wasn't founded until a year after perl 5 came out :-| > I > don't think either is true now. Finally, if you need CGI, it's easy to install > after installing perl, just like everything else we've dropped from the core > distribution. I think the "it will be installed everywhere" is the one valid reason why one may want to use CGI.pm. > In the past two years, all my interactions with CGI.pm have been to fix bugs or > send pull requests to quiet it from making noise in the core. I expect others > here have had the same experience. > > Are there any arguments out there to compel me to feel otherwise about this? Another datapoint: CGI.pm is very much facing the hostile internet. That means that any security issue in CGI is currently our problem too. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next