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Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm

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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
May 28, 2013 15:00
Subject:
Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm
Message ID:
20130528150004.GX2069@iabyn.com
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:50:31PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:07:47PM +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> 
> > > My 10-20 lines of Perl code will work on every web host that has Perl.
> > 
> > Not if the web host runs CentOS, which strips CGI.pm from the base perl install.
> 
> Interesting. I was not aware of that. As I'd said elsewhere, I was aware
> that FreeBSD *at one point* had removed it, but I wasn't sure if that had
> ever been in a release.

This also applies to the perl that comes bundled with Fedora 18.
I've got a fairly heavy install, yet still the perl-CGI RPM hasn't been
installed by default..

-- 
Little fly, thy summer's play my thoughtless hand
has terminated with extreme prejudice.
        (with apologies to William Blake)

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