Thank you, Tommy, for your vote.
So that's one vote in favor of CGI::Portable.
Are there any others who agree with this name, or do you think
something else is better?
Good days,
// Darren Duncan
At 11:30 AM -0700 4/30/01, Tommy Butler wrote:
> CGI::Portable is an excellent choice I think. Everyone who has any
>experience developing with perl on an enterprise level has been waiting a
>long time for something which helps serve as a layer between their perl
>scripts and their platform (unless they've already made their own). Perl
>should be more polymorphic in the way it handles pathnames and operating
>system calls. Python does much better, but if someone could help us all out
>by creating an emulation environment for scripts to run in -- such as the
>functionality you describe in your RFC, we could create an OS object, or an
>ENV object first and feed it a CGI object reference as one of the parameters
>to its constructor, using the ENV object to receive all method calls for the
>CGI class and polymorphically act as the go between for the CGI object and
>the operating system your scripts are running on. Kudos Darren. Very
>insightful. Should have been done long ago imho.
