P.S.  e-mail me some github usernames, and I can give you guys
permission to push to the fork.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Joe Dallago <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would  like to help with this, if you guys start a project.  I would
> say the best way to do it would be to alter deform to accept multiple
> template rendering engines stored within deform itself.  The actual
> translating part would not be hard at all, as I have already converted
> a few of them myself.  Pretty sure the i18n stuff is not dependent on
> chameleon in any way, but I'll have to take a look.  Honestly, I'm
> pretty sure that all we would have to do is convert all of the
> templates to Mako, put them in a separate directory, and create a
> configuration option of some sort to change between different template
> renderers, while keeping the ability to set your own template
> directory.  Shouldn't be too time consuming, it just hasn't been done
> yet.  We would also have to change the docs to match our changes,
> create a few tests to make sure you can switch between renderers, and
> possibly change the demo up a bit?  Not sure about that last one.  So
> I just did some hardcore forking action on deform, I will add some of
> my Mako templates at the end of the day.  You can find it here
> https://github.com/jayd3e/deform.  I like the idea of having a dir
> structure like this(may seem obvious, but thought I should vocalize
> it):
> --deform--
>              |
>              --templates--
>                                |
>                                --chameleon--
>                                                   |
>                                                   --readonly
>                                                   *templates*
>                               |
>                               --mako--
>                                          |
>                                          --readonly
>                                          *templates*
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Robert Forkel <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>> i'm in the same boat - liking deform mostly, but being a bit afraid of
>> layout requirements i will get, which turn out to require something on
>> the order of custom widgets in deform. configurable html ids and class
>> attributes on all generated elements might be good enough, but
>> configurable templates per schema-node might be good, too. I'd also
>> like deform templates with mako, but haven't done any work on this,
>> partly because i18n is important for me, and I'm not really sure, how
>> easy it would be to replicate the zpt renderer machinery for mako.
>> so anyway, hoping we'll find the community project.
>> best,
>> robert
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Matt Feifarek <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Is there a community project to "port" the templates in Deform to Mako? If
>>> so, is there a repo anywhere, and maybe I can help?
>>> I'm liking deform mostly, but I know that I will need to customize some of
>>> the layout a bit... and I'm a mako guy. It seems that if you're in for a
>>> penny, you're in for a pound on the template switch...
>>> ... so, is anybody already ¾ of the way there?
>>> This work by Mike Bayer for Pylons might be a good place to start:
>>> http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2008/07/01/better-form-generation-with-mako-and-pylons/
>>> Failing all that, how have people's experiences been trying to do gross
>>> layout with forms with only CSS? The generated code from peppercorn is kinda
>>> crufty, so it might be rough. I'm going to give it a whack today, but
>>> was just wondering...
>>> -- Matt
>>>
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