Re: Any plans for a 100% wm syntax compatibility?
Demetrios Kyriakis <[email protected]>
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Daniel Dekany wrote: > >> This would not be a problem cause it's not required as the actual >> implementation is using Velocity, and >> the main reason for switch would be the fact that this engine is alive, >> not >> the extra features. > > Despite of Velocity is not evolving (as you said), what benefit you > hope from switching to FM if you have to keep the old templates as-is, > and you don't need any extra features either? > I mean no other features that affect the template syntax (the one the users are used to), not the engine and the rest. What advantages? I'm not a FreeMarker expert so I can't comment, but in our migration draft I see things like: - direct advantages: - a better designed API - better error reporting - less errors in the engine itself - potential advantages (due to the evolution - the project is alive): - possible increase in speed - possible even better error reporting - possible FM level debugger. - possible support for precompiled templates. - indirect advantages: - missing of the ever increasing Apache.org bureaucracy. - issues usually don't stay unsolved for years in the tracker. - patches are usually accepted (don't remain unused in the tracker) Daniel Dekany wrote: > > I mean, if you just will have Velocity templates after the switching, then > what is changed for > you then? > For me alone the simple fact that V... is practically abandoned would be a reason enough for a switch :). Thank you, Demetrios. -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat/ http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Any-plans-for-a-100--wm-syntax-compatibility--tp16197027p16249937.html Sent from the freemarker-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/