[MacPorts] #44586: p5-cgi: update to version 4.0.3, new maintainer, add new ports p5-cgi-fast, p5-cgi-alternatives.
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#44586: p5-cgi: update to version 4.0.3, new maintainer, add new ports p5-cgi-fast,
p5-cgi-alternatives.
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Reporter: devans@… | Owner: markd@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Keywords: | Port: p5-cgi
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After threatening to do so for some time, in git master and perl 5.21.0,
upstream perl developers have removed CGI and friends from core on the
basis that it is no longer a best practice for perl based web site design.
Perl developers that wish to use the CGI perl module will now need to
install it separately from CPAN, and perl ports that use CGI (e.g. p5
-apache-test) will need to depend on p5-cgi directly.
See https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/blob/master/README.md for details and
discussion.
As a consequence, CGI now has a new maintainer, upstream development has
been moved to [https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm GitHub], the module version
has been updated to 4.0.3 and there are some important changes.
* CGI::Fast has been moved out of CGI to a separate module so that the
basic CGI module doesn't need a C compiler to build. This may some require
adjustment of dependencies as well.
* Another new documentation-only module, CGI::Alternatives, has been
created that does nothing other than explaining some alternatives to CGI
web development in perl.
Attached is a proposed patch for p5-cgi that upgrades the port to 4.0.3.
After doing so, a new port, p5-cgi-fast needs to be created to replace the
missing CGI::Fast functionality. A new p5-cgi-alternatives port might be
nice as well.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44586>
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