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. -- Tatsuhiko MiyagawaThread Previous | Thread Next