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This talk aims to give an overview of the past, present, and future | |
of the CGI.pm module. | |
As the new primary maintainer of CGI.pm i would like to explain what | |
i plan to do with the module, i would also like to bring people up | |
to speed with recent changes related to CGI.pm - especially the fact | |
that it will soon no longer be a core module. | |
I will also point out the state of the module with regards to issues | |
and highlight that it is still a commonly used module in some perl | |
development shops; that there are still some perl developers who will | |
advocate its use and why they shouldn't, with a heavy nod towards | |
Sawyer's recent "CGI.pm must die" talk. | |
The "future" will include suggestions for refactoring the module once | |
existing issues have been addressed. These may include: | |
+ Documentation to dissuade the use of CGI.pm | |
+ Increasing test coverage | |
+ Removal of duplicate functionality | |
+ Replacing pre-re-invented wheels with CPAN equivalents | |
+ Deprecation of HTML generation functions | |
The talk is planned as a lightning talk. |