YATED = Yet Another Template Engine Discussion

> From: Paul M Jones [mailto:pjones@ciaweb.net] > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 2:49 AM > Martin, can we hear you say with authority that "no new template > engines" is the official PEAR policy? It'd be nice to see it posted to > the list exactly that way (if you have not already, sorry if you have). > This would help to dissuade persons like myself who think there may be > a chance, when in fact there is no chance. (Not being bitter, I just > want to make sure nobody's time is wasted in the future -- certainly I > didn't expect to generate this much traffic on the list, and everybody > has heard the same arguments at least three times before.) Well such an authority is currently in the final stages of being set into place by Stig. Anyways I think its not so much that we don't allow ANY new template classes it is just that we feel that there is probably no need for new ones if developers would just try to implement their ideas based on the existing template engines. And while I really like your style you atleast haven't convinced me that Dummy wouldn't fit into one of the existing classes (same goes for xTemplate). So I hereby ask all template engine developers who feel they can leave a "dent" (in the good sense) in PEAR to first consider the existing packages and how their ideas could fit in there. Through modularizing or adding a plugin system into existing template engines your ideas might well fit into PEAR without adding yet another template engine, however as the authority of each package stays with the lead developer(s) I recommend that you try to talk to the given developer(s) early. However since we have this "template engine" mess you often have multiple developers on different packages you can approach :-) > I'll put out HTML_Template_Dummy (or maybe just "Dummy" now ;-) as a > separate PEAR-compliant but not PEAR-accepted class, if that's OK with > the PEAR leads. yes you can even create a package which is installable via the installer and you can just publish the url and then people can still do "pear install yoururl.tar.gz". regards, Lukas