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

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From:
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
Date:
May 24, 2013 18:25
Subject:
Re: RFC: Removing CGI.pm from the core distribution
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Yes, this is strange. The core merrily ships CGI.pm without FCGI, yet the
> CPAN version of CGI.pm insists that FCGI is a hard dependency. Clearly the
> dependency can't be a hard dependency, else the version shipped by the core
> wouldn't work.
>
> And, as you say, the dependency makes it hard to install (or upgrade) CGI.pm
> on a system without a compiler.
>
> What stops CGI.pm making FCGI optional? Or splitting out the FCGI support
> into a separate distribution?

+1 to get FCGI dependency out of CGI.pm and make a separate
distribution. My experience tells Mark Stosberg, current maintainer of
CGI.pm, is likely in favor of splitting out these kinds of
dependencies out of distributions.


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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
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