Hello list people this is Lee McKusick,
Here are three suggestions for the next generation of Template Toolkit.
I want to say Thank You for a very interesting toolkit that is quite an
accomplishment.
I want to reflect to the Toolkit designer and design contributors what
I am finding as the hard parts. You will see in my comments that I am a
very low skill level Perl programmer. I did get my template toolkit
project running.
1. Enable the sharing of complete TT setups. Show a tar command and
sample README file for tarring up the entire subdirectories and the key
documentation that comprises a working instance of ttree.
2. Try and explain more about a good sequence of template invocations
when processing a /src file. Maybe, summarize the ways of branching the
template reading path. I think I can branch on filename, or data. I
found myself where my setup works but I am having the classic Perl
problem of I can't expand or redo the design without rethinking it from
scratch.
3. I encountered a big hole because I don't understand object Perl
syntax. I suggest expanding the documentation that uses the my tt();
function to tell the reader how to run the example from the command
line. I needed examples to run on my computer so I could grok what the
man pages and PTT book were explaining.
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The next version of template toolkit could be packaged with a demo
setup for ttree that completely generates every important html and PDF
page needed for a generic website. Template toolkit is an elegant and
powerful tool. Thanks again.
My May 2006 review:
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxBookReviewsPerlTemplateToolkit
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