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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:27:58 +0200
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org>
To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com>
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Subject: Re: Synopsis: Modify the CGI scripts url.cgi, ports.cgi, pds.cgi
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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

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