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Adam Weinberger f978e201f6 Add www/p5-CGI.
The Perl CGI module has been deprecated from the core Perl distribution, and
will be removed in the upcoming Perl 5.22. We already have a www/p5-CGI.pm
port, but at an older version. There were incompatible changes introduced in
p5-CGI-4.00 (in particular, components began to be spun off into separate
packages).

Going forward it will be important for us to have the current p5-CGI
module in the ports tree, but the older version should probably remain, at
least for now, to maximize compatibility.

This commit registers conflicts between p5-CGI and p5-CGI.pm. We should
probably consider renaming p5-CGI.pm to p5-CGI-3 to make the difference
clearer.

I'm putting myself as maintainer in case this port causes problems. If
everything is good in a week I'll transfer it over to perl@.
2015-02-23 14:36:35 +00:00

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This is the continuance of the classic perl CGI module, bundled with Perl until
Perl 5.22. Development is continuing on p5-CGI and components of it are
actively splitting to other modules.
The older, everything-in-one-package module is still available in www/p5-CGI.pm.
See also: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Alternatives
CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing
HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form
submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation
and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML
generation utilities are included as well.
WWW: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI