Re: How do I reference functions from another template?

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:01:10PM +0100, Jeremy James wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Hey tavis and Tyler
> > If you really *must* avoid first compiling foo.tmpl, then for now the
> > #include would be what you'd want. See:
> >       
> > http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html/users_guide.html#SECTION000860000000000000000
> >  
> > *We cant compile templates in webpy and include is what we need*
> > *So please DONT PHASE OUT #includes*
> > *all our code base uses #include
> 
> On the contrary - unless you've re-written webpy's cheetah.py [1], then
> it does its own hacky #include, and dropping support from Cheetah will
> make no difference to you.
> 
> For what it's worth, I support removing #include and using more
> intelligent on-demand compiling of parent templates required by #extends
> if a user doesn't want to compile to .py first.

That sounds like a good middle-ground to me, but I'm curious as to why
users (read: you's guys ;)) aren't compiling templates? From your point
of view what are the benefits to this approach that is gained over
compiling .tmpl->.py via `cheetah compile`?

I'm genuinely curious for the usecases for dynamically compiled
templates in this fashion since we don't use anything like this at
Slide.

> [1] web.py has deprecated cheetah support for its home-rolled templating
> language (which continues to look more like Cheetah every day). However,
> for the old support that the OP is referring to, see the
> __compiletemplate function at the top of
> http://github.com/webpy/webpy/blob/a5a1ab1cb10106ea678e9741790668063c3cfdd1/web/cheetah.py

Why they decided to roll their own template language is still beyond me,
my only guess is Django-envy.

Cheers

-- 
-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.

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