would it make sense to replace the "more essential" parts of CGI.pm with wrappers for equivalent Mojolicious functions?

No, you can't change the guts of CGI.pm without breaking everything that makes CGI.pm what it is (CGI.pm), that's how old and quirky feature-full it is -- one of its design features is that you can edit CGI.pm to configure it how you prefer

but maybe it could be a step in cleaning up CGI,pm...

Not really, you're not the first to express similar thoughts in this discussion, but have you ever looked inside CGI.pm or edited it or submitted a patch? Heard of CGI::Simple?

Nicholas Clark recently said This is always the case. Talk is cheap, and there is a lot of it.

All the folks who are really interested have started forking already :)

In reply to Re^3: Remove CGI.pm from Perl Core? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Remove CGI.pm from Perl Core? by rpnoble419

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