Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] patch for nms FormMail

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:53:41AM -0800, Wizard (wi...@ne...) wrote:
> > Can't use CPAN modules (see the NMS faq for reasons why) :(
> > Our own email verification is pretty good anyways
> 
> I couldn't find anything in the FAQ (doesn't mean it's not there, it might
> just might mean that 5:20am is too early to go looking for it :).
> 
> I'm assuming you're making a distinction between standard distribution
> modules and CPAN (as in "CGI.pm is part of the standard distribution")?
> They're technically all CPAN modules.

From the main page at <http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/>

Note that these scripts are intended to replace Matt's scripts. This means 
that their target audience is people who might not know very much at all 
about Perl. Any contributed scripts must therefore follow certain rules:

    * They must run under Perl 5.004_04 or later. Any earlier Perl than this 
      is pre-historic and can therefore be safely ignored.
    * They must not use any non-standard Perl modules. I know this is a bit 
      contentious, but I really think that the target audience will have 
      problems installing modules from CPAN.
    * They must run with no errors or warnings under use strict and -wT. One 
      of the worst legacies of Matt's scripts is that people use them to learn 
      Perl. None of the MSA scripts use these constraints and therefore people 
      copying them wiil learn bad habits. If people learn Perl from NMS they 
      will at least learn better programming habits.



And, yes, we do distinguish between "standard" modules and "CPAN" modules :)

Dave...

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