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Author mikecmcleod
Recipients eric.araujo, ethan.furman, loewis, mikecmcleod, orsenthil, v+python, vstinner
Date 2021-11-18.17:05:09
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Hi Victor,

Ok I'll do that.

Regards,
Mike

On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 15:36, STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> STINNER Victor <vstinner@python.org> added the comment:
>
> I searched for open issues which contain "cgi" in their title. I found 43
> open issues. The oldest is 101 months ago.
>
> In 10 years, Lib/cgi.py got 43 commits. Only 13 commits in the last 5
> years (since 2016-01-01).
>
> It seems like the cgi module is not really maintained anymore. One option
> is to do nothing: I guess that the most basic features continue to work.
> Another option is to start deprecating all code related to CGI in the
> stdlib.
>
> While CGI is not "commonly" used, it seems like it remains popular for
> specific usages. So I don't think that it's time to deprecate it :-)
>
>
> > You can for sure make a pull request and see if a core dev will review
> and merge it
>
> Yep, just do that ;-) So far, nobody proposed a PR to fix this issue.
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