[cgiapp] Re: HTML::FillInForm maintanence, patch idea

[Mark Stosberg]

> Everything is working fine, but I notice some valid bugs:
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-FillInForm
> 
> and I notice no updates to any of his modules in more than 9 months:
> http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/?R=D
> 
> and I have an issue - you cannot pass an instance of HTML::Tree directly to
> the FillInForm method. I would be happy to supply a patch, but it seems that
> it would be blowing smoke in the wind based on how frequently TJ Mather
> seems to be around.
> 
> Any feedback on this situation is welcome.

I first still try the normal process of filling a wish/bug report via
the bug tracker. He was responsive when I submitted the patch that
became HTML::FillInForm 2.0.

He's also the person that got me started as CPAN maintainer long ago. I
was interested in HTML::FormValidator, but it was embedded in another
distribution and the maintainer for it was not being responsive. TJ
facilited forking the module into Data::FormValidator and encouraging me
to make the updates I wanted and upload it under the new name.

If he's not responsive, you always have the option to fork yourself.

I have some interest in a pure-perl FillInForm to support a more
portable Titanium distribution. The trick there is finding a suitable
replacement for HTML::Parser. 

    Mark

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