Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> However, I don't believe that it was why Turbine people has
>> discontinued FreeMarker support. Most probably they was not even aware
>> of this issue of FM 2.x series.
>Probably not. Henning can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not get the
>impression that they made the slightest attempt to use more current
>versions of FM.
No, we didn't. You're right. All of the active developers that I know
use Velocity in their projects and at least I don't see much sense in
supporting something that is not in demand by our users (on
turbine-user) and not used by the developers (on turbine-dev).
Patches are (as always) welcome. If you have a working FreeMarker
templating solution (which shouldn't be too hard to do) for Turbine,
we will put it into the CVS tree in a second. But please don't think
that any of the active developers will spend time that is better spent
on things that we _know_ that they're used than on supporting "yet
another templating solution".
Asides from being able to juggle with floats on a template, having a
few more control statements (such as being able to break out of a
loop) and name space support (which is nice and I'd really like to
have that in a view), I don't see too many differences between
Velocity and FM. But then again, e.g. my code does 95% of its job in
java and uses templates mainly to call tools and build layouts.
>After all, the authors of the various frameworks that now support FM are
>present off-and-on in our community: The "Open for Business" people
>(Dave and Andy), Anthony Eden (Jpublish), the Tammi guy, Ikka Priha. We
>never had any contact of any sort with the Turbine people. If they had
>been making any attempt to use our newer stuff, we surely would have
>heard from one or more of them.
As stated above. We will move to a more component based approach with
post-2.3 and supporting "yet another templating solution" is pretty
low on our list. If you have patches, send them. If there is demand
from users, tell us.
Regards
Henning
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