Re: [Freemarker-devel] interested in feedback with new template engine

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> Monday, June 30, 2008, 2:59:01 PM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Monday, June 30, 2008, 2:09:11 PM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
>>>
>>>> I only see it once. No big deal anyway.
>>>>
>>>> But why no announcement on the Velocity list?
>>>
>>> (I would think he will when it's more polished...)
>>>
>>>> Maybe you think they would get angry and we won't... :-)
>>>>
>>>> Of course, somebody who still uses Velocity and hasn't switched to
>>>> FreeMarker, why would they switch to ZipScript?
>>>
>>> Because.... no monsters there like Mr Revusky? :)
>>
>> It could be some updated version of the Alladin story. My evil spirit
>> lives inside the freemarker-xxx.tar.gz and then when you open it, the
>> evil spirit jumps out.
>>
>> Anyway, in other matters, for a while now, I've been meaning to just
>> say: "Let's push out a freemarker 2.4 preview release in whatever
>> state it's in. And I mean, forget all the perfectionism for now. It's
>> a preview, that's all. Just roll it up and stick it up there and
>> announce it.
>
> For that at least we had to write a short overview of what was
> changed... you know, just a short txt or something.

Okay, so if I write a README.txt that covers the main changes
, could we just shove out a preview release?

> But anyway, as
> always, I don't believe in Preview-s. RC is the first stage that
> starts making sense IMO (for a project like FM, that is), but for
> that... well... I had to do may work first. <forced-grin/> You could
> come over and beat me up or something... Ah, not good, I'm certainly
> stronger. :)
>
>> JR

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