Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:27:58 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synopsis: Modify the CGI scripts url.cgi, ports.cgi, pds.cgi Message-ID: <20030408112758.B1361@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200303052346.21857.philip@p6m7g8.com>; from philip@p6m7g8.com on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:46:21PM %2B0000 References: <200303052346.21857.philip@p6m7g8.com>
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On 2003-03-05 23:46:21 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > Synopsis: Modify the CGI scripts url.cgi, ports.cgi, pds.cgi and the script > portindex to use the Perl FreeBSD::Ports modules. These modules also need > thorough testing. > > Whats the status on this ? > > out of curiousity, html.pl why not just CGI.pm ? Hi Philip, the ports cgi scripts are very old and ugly perl4 scripts. These scripts are stable, but hard to maintain. Feel free to re-rewrite the scripts using modern perl libraries and FreeBSD::Ports ;-) -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
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