On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 14:15, Chad Carr wrote:
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> > From: Chad Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > My work on tmpl continues, however it goes _very_ slowly because of my
> > inability to commit large chunks of time to it. I have also been
> > rethinking my design in this area. Although the thought of a truly
> > abstract templating language is a nice one, I am afraid that it will be
> > next to impossible to pull off in bourne shell.
Chad,
Thanks for the update. :-)
I like the abstract idea also. The ability to use configuration
interfaces from command line to GUI is appealing.
> > Basically, I am considering either dropping the abstract templating
> > concept altogether (in favor of sourceable shell-fragment text
> > generators; I think Eric's work had this idea, too) or writing a real
> > template engine myself in C. There are a couple available (enitl and
> > libtpt) but they both use libstdc++, which is gargantuan. I simply
> > cannot get even a trivial example to compile smaller than about 1M
> > static, stripped. This might work out for CD or CF, but it is out of
> > the question on a floppy, of course. This would kind of exclude it from
> > the core distro...
Have you considered Lua? LuaMan might be a starting point worth
evaluating.
Lua (List of projects)
http://www.lua.org/
http://www.lua.org/uses.html
LuaMan
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~ana/luaman/
> > Anyway, to make a long story short, it proceeds, but more slowly than I
> > would like. Our last conversations on the subject made me realize that
> > the array handling of cdb was not featureful enough, so I fixed that,
> > but the tmpl problem is much more complex due to the space constraints.
I hope an acceptable solution is found.
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