From: smcv <smcv@web>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:29:40 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: respond
X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/9ebe46d89e89ca7ca345cabda289d282278ad1ed

respond
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Any_todo_because_CGI.pm_deprecated__63__.mdwn b/doc/todo/Any_todo_because_CGI.pm_deprecated__63__.mdwn
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@@ -3,3 +3,15 @@ any of the suggested [[!cpan CGI::Alternatives]] in response to the
 official deprecation of [[!cpan CGI desc=CGI.pm]]?
 
 Or is it just a matter of 'hold course until [[rewrite ikiwiki in haskell]]'?
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+> I don't know whether Joey has any plans in this direction, but
+> [[!cpan CGI]], [[!cpan CGI::Session]] and [[!cpan CGI::FormBuilder]]
+> are all documented to be part of the [[plugin API|plugins/write]]
+> so in the short term, I don't think anything is going to change.
+> If someone works out a way to do equivalent hooks nicely in a
+> different framework, that would have to be IkiWiki 4.
+>
+> I'm not sure how much IkiWiki would stand to gain from moving to a
+> more extensive web framework: it doesn't do elaborate URL routing
+> like most webapps, because it produces static HTML for as much of
+> its content as possible anyway. --[[smcv]]