[PEPr] Comment on HTML::Template_Savant

Paul Jones (http://pear.php.net/user/pmjones) has commented on the proposal for HTML::Template_Savant. Comment: Norbert Mocsnik wrote this in reference to Savant being the base for a common PEAR template engine: > Although it would be good to see a common API for the template > engines of PEAR, I don't feel it has to be done now, with Savant. > I'm using Savant since a week and it worked great from the > beginning. As it's fully PEAR-compatible (hence the proposal), I'd > be happy to see it in PEAR to use the common bug system, manual, > whatever.. I think Savant should be allowed to be in PEAR as it's a > great tool and it's just as good as the other 5 template engines. > When someone someday comes up with the idea of contributing > something regarding to API-unifying, he/she will be allowed to do > it. I don't see why this should be solved in Savant when the other > engines doesn't solve this. I think that Greg and I are saying that it *could* be done, *might* be done, using Savant, not that it *must* be done. To be clear, I'd rather not have "must unify all existing PEAR template engines" as a requirement, that's just too heavy a load for me to bear. However, the technical possibility does exist, due to Savant's flexibility, for Savant at some point in the future to be able to mimic other template engines' APIs and markups. And thank you for using Savant, Norbert; it will stay around whether or not it gets accepted into PEAR (which I hope it does :-). Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=83 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net