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in thread CGI::Tiny versus undefined parameter/form field

Yes, I think you are correct: CGI::Tiny is fundamentally different. It won't work for me. Believe it or not, I have used (or tried to) CGI::Simple before. It won't work on my Mac, which is where I develop. So "Simple" didn't live up to its name for me.

I don't use CGI for much, actually. I use it for the form inputs, and that's about it. So if that is not the portion of its codebase that landed it on the "deprecated" list, I guess I should be fine. In any case, for now at least, I've given up on the CGI::Tiny. It's a tool for someone else. I'm back to good old CGI. One thing that irritated me with CGI is that it only recognizes the "name" attribute of an element, and not its "id". But I guess I can live with assigning both, one for the JS, and one for the CGI. It just seems a shame to have to repeat so many names--fattens the code, and uses more bandwidth.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

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Re^3: CGI::Tiny versus undefined parameter/form field
by pryrt (Abbot) on Dec 12, 2022 at 15:41 UTC
    It won't work on my Mac, which is where I develop. So "Simple" didn't live up to its name for me.

    I find that hard to believe, given the green Darwin column in cpantesters report, unless the test suite is not sufficient. But since I don't have a Mac (and haven't used one since they looked like this), I won't be any help in that regard.

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      Well, I have an older Mac, and too much on it to dare trying to upgrade. My Perl version is 5.12--and from the chart you linked, CGI::Simple is compatible with 5.16 at the earliest. I guess that's the deal right there.

      Blessings,

      ~Polyglot~

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        "My Perl version is 5.12--and from the chart you linked, CGI::Simple is compatible with 5.16 at the earliest."

        This isn't the case. What you're seeing is that the volunteers who have their cpan client setup to submit results to cpantesters don't have coverage of versions below 5.16 on that platform.

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