Cross-posted from the Template Toolkit mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev

2 Jun 2006

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(a)template-toolkit.org
Subject: Re: [Templates] Re: TT version 2.15 released

On 26/05/06, Andy Wardley &lt;abw(a)wardley.org&gt; wrote:
...
  Robert Hicks wrote:
  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. [snip]
...
  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. [ snip ]
...
  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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