Re: [Webware-discuss] templating: request review

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 09:07 PM 4/29/2001 -0700, Tavis Rudd wrote:
>I'd suggest just using a wrapper around TemplateServer to
>do this.  The entire design is modular so all the
>directives you don't want (#for, #if, #set, #stop, etc.)
>can be turned off easily.
[snip]

I agree that this could work, but then if RNV is used in WebKit (which is 
my plan) then WebKit would rely on a new, pretty big chunk of code 
(TemplateServer). I want to avoid *requiring* any more big packages for 
WebKit, otherwise we will slowly approach the bloat we found in Zope.

Also, people want to inevitable run packages on small platforms like the 
Palm or Terrel's computer science lab machines.  :-)

I'm not even comfortable that it requires TaskKit. I would like to see it 
do something simple minded if TaskKit were absent, such as ping managers 
every X minutes (where X is a setting).

Regarding quality, I think our test suites for both RNV and the other 
templating kits will eventually grow to the point where there will be no 
concern or backsliding.


>By the way, I think the code reviews and template
>comparisons you've been making are excellent, and
>appreciate the effort you put into open communication and
>encouraging collaboration!

Thanks. I saw so many people cranking on templates I felt it would be 
useful to support all that with reviews, indexes, etc. instead of spewing 
more of my own code.

-Chuck