At 14:33 13/03/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:34:50PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> > >I haven't looked at Matts scripts, but I get the feeling that they are
> aimed
> > >at beginners who have a fairly standard perl/apache installation[1]. I'm
> > >sure your solution will be much better, but I don't think it would be a
> > >replacement for Matt's if the users can't run it...
> > I agree completely. I'd go as far as to suggest that these replacement
> > scripts should only use standard modules as well. The second that it
> > becomes just a bit harder to use our scripts than it is to use Matt's
> we've
> > lost most of our potential audience.
>
>Any well written script we write will use CGI.pm. Unless we ship CGI.pm
>with the scripts, the fact that there are many many broken perl installs
>out there will mean such a script will be harder to use than matt wright's
>code.
You need to define a standard and stick to it. I suggest we write to Perl
5.004_04 as it was a) pretty stable and b) the first to include CGI.pm.
We simply can't compete with Matt on backwards compatibility as his scripts
all run on 4.036!
Dave...
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