> > Paul Boddie wrote: >> ...I firmly believe in "unbundling" templating languages from >> frameworks. > > But doesn't that just make more work for the poor sods who are trying to > build things? After all, they have to rebundle them, don't they?
theres a tradeoff of initial setup vs. user choice in how they generate their output. pushing one specific template approach favors it over all the others, and a lot of good ideas in all the rejected ones get blown away. the python community, being a brainy bunch, has a particularly wide variety of html generation approaches...I think this diversity should not be discouraged. i would compare to Java Server Pages, which are klunky and hard to use, and how every java-based site is built with crappy looking and hard to debug JSP templates, since "thats what you use", despite the existence of other java-based approaches which are pretty much ignored. ROR is a really new thing. Id be curious to see how popular it is a year from now, and if it even manages to work its way onto a real large scale, high-traffic site (and stays there). since ROR is designed for instant gratification and not really at all for scalable architecture (a field where flexible options are crucial), i have a feeling people will be seeking new replacements at that point. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com