[PEPr] Comment on HTML::Template_Savant

David Costa (http://pear.php.net/user/gurugeek) has commented on the proposal for HTML::Template_Savant. Comment: As Justin said "PEAR is supposed to allow for competing packages as long as they are different. Lots of people use Savant and it makes sense to me to have it as it *is* a very minimal templating engine. And as said in other comments, each of the other engines could even be extensions of Savant, which would be interesting." Now Flexy is a simplification of Xipe but is part of PEAR: "HTML_Template_Flexy started it's life as a simplification of HTML_Template_Xipe.." I have been using Savant. Before using it I tried Xipe, Flexy, Sigma and many other engines including smarty. Savant is different in his approach to templating. Now if we want to find similarities, this would be the case on Xipe and Flexy too because the result might look the same. Afterall these are all template engines. Norbert and Justin seems to agree with me. Now, there are 2 possibilities. If competitive package means "doing the same thing" or "having the same results" there are already different template engines allowed in PEAR. If it means "doing the same thing but with a different approach" in my opinion Savant will be deem to be considered. I would probably be as negative as others but I tried it, checked the source, and it is hardly the same as Xipe. 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