On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:20:59AM +1100, Ian Haywood wrote: > > I recommend to change > > GNUmed in a way so absence of Cheetah will be non fatal. Well, since Cheetah is available in Debian and anyone can (have) install(ed) Debian for very nearly free I don't see that big of a problem.
> > 1.)http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cheetahtemplate/ I'll have a good look tomorrow what this will buy us. Ian, can you sum up in a few words exactly how you plan to use Cheetah - what advantages does it bring in ? If I understand things correctly it is a parser for templates so it would replace our custom "engines". We'd still need to write the templates ourselves (of course). Which seems to make the claim "Cheetah supports any text format" an obvious, moot point. What remains is that it parses the template and transforms placeholders into data. Which can just as easily be done with stock Python string replacement (%s stuff). The one point I can see is that it seems to allow adding *logic* into the template - am I right there ? So, can you give a practical example of how we would use Cheetah and what we would gain from it over stock Python. Mind you, I'm not against using it. I missed finding the obvious advantage yet. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
