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

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

• RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Ricardo Signes
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Alexandr Ciornii
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Christian Walde
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Ricardo Signes
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Nicholas Clark
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by demerphq
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Curtis Jewell
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Darin McBride
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Greg Lindahl
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Eric Brine
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Leon Timmermans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by David Golden
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Nicholas Clark
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Karen Etheridge
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Johan Vromans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• RE: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by vadim.konovalov
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Nicholas Clark
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by David Golden
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Dr.Ruud
• CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Johan Vromans
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Johan Vromans
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Eric Brine
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Daisuke Maki
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Johan Vromans
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Xiao Yafeng
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Johan Vromans
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Eric Brine
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Eric Brine
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Nicholas Clark
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Dave Mitchell
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Leon Timmermans
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Peter Scott
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Ricardo Signes
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Peter Scott
• Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by demerphq
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Leon Timmermans
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by bulk88
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by James E Keenan
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Ricardo Signes
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by Mark Allen
• Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution by David Golden