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CgiContrib Feedback and Development

-- Harald Jörg - 2015-10-28

Thank you Harald for contributing this useful extension! It will reduce some headaches when installing TWiki on newer OSes.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-10-28

Today I saw my first Debian Jessie, with Perl 5.20, bundled with CGI 4.09. With CgiContrib, TWiki was supposed to override the system's CGI library, which works for most of TWiki, but it doesn't work not for configure.

In TWiki 6.0.1, the configure script does not read setlib.cfg before trying to use CGI, therefore it catches the "bad" system version 4.09 before TWiki's own libraries get precedence, and breaks with the notorious CGI::param called in list context.

So, Peter's change to configure in November, contained in 6.0.2, is required for Debian Jessie. TWiki 6.0.1 will not work, not even with CgiContrib installed.

I think this should be noted in KnownIssuesOfTWiki06x00, so that Debian users upgrade their TWiki before they switch over to Jessie.

-- Harald Jörg - 2016-02-03

I finally started migrating my TWiki to a perl version not having CGI bundled and realized that CGI::Fast is needed in CgiContrib to use Fast CGI. May I add lib/CGI/Fast.pm?

-- Hideyo Imazu - 2019-12-04

I guess it doesn't hurt to add it. On the other hand, it isn't urgent: CGI::Fast is not affected by the incompatible changes in CGI.pm, so unlike with CGI, there's no problem when users pick it from either CPAN or their distribution. Also, CGI::Fast is using CPAN:FCGI, and FCGI can not be bundled: It contains XS components, so it must be compiled with the correct library versions for the target platform.

I have no strong opinions: I have never used FCGI, and I also have migrated my own installation to PSGI.

-- Harald Jörg - 2019-12-04

Harald, you are right. Adding lib/CGI/Fast.pm to CgiContrib is not so helpful and may misguide people. I'm retracting my proposal.

-- Hideyo Imazu - 2019-12-05