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Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution

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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
May 24, 2013 13:07
Subject:
Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution
Message ID:
m21u8wzfu1.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes:

>> As a CPAN module, you'll have to install it yourself, if you can, and
>> there's no guarantee it will work. 
>
> I'm having trouble parsing the last "it". In that, if you can install it
> (the module), then I'm failing to envisage a situation where the code
> wouldn't work, as the code is identical.

It is -- now. But currently CGI.pm is part of perl, in synch, and
maintained together. If removed from the core, there's no guarantee that
CPAN versions of CGI.pm will work with this or newer perls.

-- Johan

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