I'm posting this for all monks to follow up on. I think our community input should be added to the overall chorus. The entire posting can be found on the Perl Weekly by Gabor Szabo at http://perlweekly.com/archive/96.html

To save some time the basic issue is should CGI be removed from the CORE set of Perl modules http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/05/ejecting-cgipm-from-the-perl-core.html

The argument against CGI is that is no longer best practice. In my option that may be very true as the code is old. I my self do not use half of the functions in it (I use the just the $q->param() mostly) and I never use it to generate my HTML (I use Templet::Toolkit). I agree with the post by chromatic (see above link) that CGI should be re-written to conform with the new Perl Best Practices.

What do you think?

In reply to Remove CGI.pm from Perl Core? by rpnoble419

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.