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Hello 2013/5/24 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>: > > 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. Many people still use programs that use CGI.pm, for ex. from NMS collection. And CGI.pm is easiest to start with. > Finally, if you need CGI, it's easy to install > after installing perl, just like everything else we've dropped from the core > distribution. It would not be easy to do on web hosting which does not has possibility of installing modules from CPAN. Also currently CGI.pm requires FCGI which requires compiler which frequently is not installed. > > 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. I use CGI::Applications (mostly for old programs), it uses CGI.pm. Also if I need a very simple web program, I use CGI.pm directly. -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.netThread Previous | Thread Next