Re^2: Remove CGI.pm from Perl Core?

[jakeease]

So, if Mojolicious, say, were to find its way into core, would it make sense to replace the "more essential" parts of CGI.pm with wrappers for equivalent Mojolicious functions? I realize that this question is or at least borders on being irrelevant to the question of whether either belongs in the core, but maybe it could be a step in cleaning up CGI,pm...

[Anonymous Monk]

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?

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