From: Terrel S. <tsh...@ic...> - 2001-04-30 19:35:35
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Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > >It would be very cool if we could iron out differences and y'all could > >use velocity - that would be the wildest thing - if you could take the > >same set of templates and run it under a python framework or a java > >framework... > > I understand your motivation, but I still see a pure Python templating > solution as the way to go so that I don't have to download and use Java > (yet another software package). > Didn't he mean the other way around?: use Python Velocity to instantiate templates written for Java Velocity. To do that would require a real velocity-as-a-language specification, which would probably improve the robustness of all implementations, because it would remove unstated implementation-language-dependent assumptions. (Don't IEFT standards require at least two reference implementations written in different languages?) |