Re: [PEPr] +1 for HTML::Template_Savant

On Jun 8, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Greg Beaver wrote:

Paul M Jones wrote:

Will this satisfy your condition? "I, Paul M. Jones, hereby swear, attest, and affirm, that if Savant is voted in to PEAR, and if Alan Knowles is willing, I will immediately seek to work with Alan Knowles to build a common Template code base from which both Savant and Flexy can extend in order to simplify everybody's life and have a common template engine for all of PEAR and PHP world to benefit from." Let me know if that's what you mean. :-)

I mean "Paul will work with Alan to build a savant that is extended to create flexy" the common template engine should be savant-like, not a base for savant

I can agree to that easily, if (1) Savant is accepted into PEAR the way it is now (so that it is actually in PEAR and thus gains a footing equal to the current template systems), and (2) Alan is willing to collaborate. Then I can rework the accepted alpha of HTML_Template_Savant into something that can be extended to make a Flexy. This depends on Alan's acceptance of the idea; obviously I can't speak for him. Personally, I would bet he won't like the idea of re-doing Flexy in any manner at all, and I can sympathize with that very well; I know that I would not like doing that kind of thing for one of my own PEAR packages in deference to an as-yet unaccepted package except in very clear cases of advantage to all. I think this is such a case, but then, I'm the supplicant, not the throne. ;-) If Alan is *not* willing to work on Flexy as an extension of Savant, or rework Flexy as an extension of a common base that includes something like Savant, does that change your condition? -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: your collaborative online documentation system. http://yawiki.com/ Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/