Thanks a lot :-) Siegfried Goeschl
> On 17.01.2019, at 19:48, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: > > In principle "Who user FreeMarker?" is where such community projects > appear, but admittedly it's not focused enough to increase visibility > of this otherwise important category of application. Now, FMPP was > directly under the "Tooling" menu back then, but I have removed it as > it wasn't maintained much anymore... not like I know of alternatives > with similar set of feature though. Now I have put that submenu back, > but as "File-to-file transformers", and it links to both FMPP and your > project. > > Feel free to improve/replace the project description (with something > similarly short). > > As of freemarker-generator, it provides too little functionality, and > is too specialized at the moment to include it there. I hoped the > contributors will put some more work into it, but it seems they won't. > My idea was that if there's an "offical" CLI/Maven/Gradle tool that's > sufficiently flexible/generic, then it's more likely that people will > contribute to that instead of creating their own similar but more > specialized tools. Obviously at its current stage that won't happen. > So anyone feels like improving it (it was discussed here how), don't > hold yourself back. > > > Thursday, January 3, 2019, 10:01:52 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> unfortunately I somehow missed FMPP :-( >> >> What do you think about adding a “Community Projects” or “Related >> Projects” section on the web page? >> >> * I honestly think that FMPP and “freemarker-generator” should be more easy >> to find >> * All of these projects allow visitors to play around with >> Freemarker easily and some of the visitors will become users and maybe >> contributors ... >> >> Having said that I would be very happy with a link - even more >> happy as part of a " “Community Projects” / “Related Projects” section … >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Siegfried Goeschl >> >>> On 03.01.2019, at 20:10, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> From a quick look, it has a somewhat similar background than FMPP had, >>> that is, processing a whole directory of files (or just a file if >>> that's what needed) without writing specialized Java code, and loading >>> data from different type of sources, and "transformations". In that >>> regard, https://github.com/apache/freemarker-generator is also >>> similar, though it's very very simple, and there the main idea was to >>> have some "official" Maven plugin for basic code/config generation, >>> but the intent is that we generalize it, so that it can be called from >>> Gradle, and command-line as well, and so that it can load from other >>> data formats than JSON as well. Surely there's a few other similar >>> project out there too. Obviously we shouldn't have multiple similar >>> projects under the freemarker.apache.org umbrella, so I wonder if >>> anything can be done about with these parallel efforts. Like in your >>> concrete case, if you see any hope for that, merging these efforts. >>> >>> But, if nothing else, certainly you can get a link from >>> freemarker.apache.org. (I will try freemarker-cli when I find the >>> time.) >>> >>> Monday, December 31, 2018, 3:46:15 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I asked many moons ago about contributing a Freemarker CLI (see >>>> https://github.com/sgoeschl/freemarker-cli) - no idea about the >>>> outcome, can’t even find the emails :-) >>>> >>>> Well, I'm still using the code and it becomes sort of mature >>>> >>>> * There is still some stuff I want to implement - mostly better >>>> handling of hierarchical documents >>>> * The code is currently written in Groovy but in the long run I >>>> would like to migrate to Java or Kotlin >>>> >>>> And I still somehow think my pet project is of interest for an larger >>>> audience :-) >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> Siegfried Goeschl >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel Dekany >>> >> >> > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
