Re: Where to go from Spyce

On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Ed Keith wrote:

> I see form the archives of this list and the Spyced Blog that Spyce  
> seems to be dead. This is disappointing.
>
> I am trying to figure out where to go (or if it might be worth it to  
> update Spyce myself). I am probably not a typical user. I use a  
> three phase web development model. I use Spyce to preprocess static  
> content before uploading it to a web server. The output from Spyce  
> is either static XHTML, or PHP to be run on the server. The third  
> phase is server side JavaScript. At first glance it does not look  
> like Pylons or django are well suited to this purpose.

Spyce is really three things in one: a templating language, an engine  
for rendering that language, and a Web server for building pages on  
the fly using said engine. Pylons and Django are much the same.

It sounds like you only need the language & engine. There's Mako, Kid,  
Genshi, and a host of others. Start googling on something like 'mako  
kid genshi' and you'll find references to others.

Mako is a my choice. IMO it is a lot like Spyce in that it provides  
what you need and then gets out of the way.

HTH
Philip

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