[Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Cheetah 2.0rc3 released

[Tavis R. <ta...@re...>]

http://cheetahtemplate.org/docs/CHANGES
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cheetahtemplate/Cheetah-2.0rc3.tar.gz?download

CHANGES SUMMARY:

- added short-form single line versions of all directives that have an #end      
tag, except for #errorCatcher

- added support for $!silentModePlaceholders, like in Velocity

- added support for function/method @decorators
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- refactored the #cache/CacheRegions code to support abitrary backend cache      
data stores, and wrote a Memcached backend

- made it possible to add custom directives, or customize the      
parsing/handling of existing ones, via the compiler settings       
'directiveNamesAndParsers' and 'endDirectiveNamesAndHandlers'

- added a compile-time macro facility to Cheetah. These macros are very      
similar to macros in Lisp.  See the CHANGES file for an explanation.

- added the initial bits of an #i18n directive

- added a new callback hook 'handlerForExtendsDirective' to the compiler 
settings. It can be used to customize the handling of #extends directives.  
The callback can dynamically add import statements or rewrite the baseclass'     
name if needed.

- changed the default filter to the one that doesn't try to encode Unicode. It 
was 'EncodeUnicode' and is now 'RawOrEncodedUnicode'.

- added optional support for parsing whitespace between the directive start      
token (#) and directive names, per Christophe Eymard's request

- major extensions to the test suite

- made the handling of Template.compile()'s preprocessors arg simpler