From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 30 6:52:27 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B5437B41E; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 06:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 607F9564; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:52:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:52:15 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Ceri Davies , Josef Karthauser , Mark Murray , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5 MAINTAIN README.posix-bc Todo-5.005 XSlock.h bytecode.h byterun.c byterun.h ebcdic.c interp.sym myconfig objpp.h perl_exp.SH thread.sym src/contrib/perl5/eg/cgi dna.small.gif.uu wilogo.gif.uu src/contrib/perl5/ext/B byteperl.c ... Message-ID: <20020430135215.GA25142@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <7m8z75imh4.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <200204300912.g3U9CXoI019113@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020430124529.GB40079@netmonger.net> <20020430125621.GB38322@submonkey.net> <20020430133501.GB24712@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020430134658.GA39702@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020430134658.GA39702@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: >=20 > > Losing CGI.pm is bad. It doesn't automatically get installed when you > > install apache, and it is assumed to be part of the perl distribution by > > all script writers. >=20 > That's because it *is* part of the perl distribution. >=20 > I'm not sure that modifying it like this meets with section 3 of the Arti= stic > license either: there is no clear notice "stating how and when" the files= were > modifed (removed in this case). >=20 There was a plan that Anton Tobez was working on to remove all but the essential modules, and migrate them to a meta-port. I wouldn't object to that because it's clear that it's all or nothing, but not having modules that are standard to the perl distribution seems a bit arbitrary; now it means that a perl programmer can't rely on scripts even working between FreeBSD distributions, because it's possible that any number of modules might have been deemed not. necessary. BTW, I develop perl scripts using CGI on systems that don't have apache, or any web server installed. It's not a requisite of cgi.pm, and it allows users to enter variable/value pairs on stdin when not running inside of a CGI environment. Joe --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzOoY4ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbkfgCfXIcZe6kEtaYKHnXROIJL30Nv t/IAoLN2OjO3krYCpIFD0+9N8l4TmeCa =dhns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message