This is relevant to us. May have implications for Debian packaging.

-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Trevena [mailto:aaron.trevena@gmail.com] Sent: 02 June 2006 15:01 To: templates@template-toolkit.org Subject: Re: [Templates] Re: TT version 2.15 released

On 26/05/06, Andy Wardley abw@wardley.org wrote:

Robert Hicks wrote:

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I just started following the TT list. Why were these broken out? I can think of a couple of reasons myself but wanted to hear it from the "horses mouth". And no, I am not implying anything by that! :-)

A number of reasons. To reduce bloat in the core, to make TT easier to install, and to limit the overall dependencies on other modules that can and do change over time.

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Those people who just want to process some templates and have no interest in GD (or XML, DBI or Latex) shouldn't really have to worry about all that.

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So in summary I think it's a good move all round. Make TT slimmer.

Thanks Andy.

This is good news for any framework (Maypole, Catalyst, etc) using TT as a major component of the framwork, as GD and other unreleated dependancies have historically caused end-user installation problems when all they want to do is build a website without any graphics or xml munging.

It's also good news as it should now be even quicker and easier to get TT installed in places that resistent to dragging in large chunks of cpan, and finally should make life easier for perl packagers in linux and bsd distro's.

(Three) Cheers,

A.

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