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On 24 May 2013 11:06, Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Maybe the consequence of this would be that hosting services start adopting a more progressive approach to this subject. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next