Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] gettext -- and Mike's involvement in Cheetah

[Shannon --jj B. <jj...@ya...>]

By the way, I looked at PTL, and I really don't think it's
nearly as cool as Cheetah.  I showed it to two other developers (one
from a Struts background and one from a PHP background) and they both
agreed :-/  Of course, YMMV, and I wish you the best of luck.

Best Regards,
-jj

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:35:32 -0800, Mike Orr <ms...@oz...> wrote:
> By the way, I'm probably going to be less involved in Cheetah in the
> future.  I've started using PTL [1] for my own templating, and I like
the way
> it's so simple and straightforward.  You don't need a Python-like
syntax for a
> for loop or attribute lookup, you just use Python.  Also, my
understanding of
> Cheetah doesn't extend into the parser or compiler, so I can't help
much there.
> I don't know what Tavis's plans are.  There are lots of bugfixes in
CVS and I'd
> recommend that version to anybody who wants to seriously use Cheetah.
 It's
> high time for a release but I don't know when either of us will have
time to
> make one.  At the same time there's lots of long projects on the TODO
list,
> like fixing the dict-method bug ($update -- oops, it found a
different 'update'
> than what you meant).  I still can't get into the Cheetah CVS at
SourceForge:
>     Cannot access /cvsroot/cheetahtemplate/CVSROOT
>     No such file or directory
> I have my directory as of my latest update if anybody needs it.  So I
> guess the upshot is, Cheetah is not going away but development will
> slow down, and if somebody like JJ wants to take a more active role
in
> developing it, now is a good time.  Subject to BDFL Tavis's approval,
> of course.

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