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On Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:55 -0400, 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. 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. > > 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? I suggested removal of CGI back in 2001 (I checked). I see no reason whatsoever to keep it in CORE (other than people expecting it to be in CORE) ++ for removal -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.17 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next