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

Monday, June 30, 2008, 6:00:21 PM, Joe Hudson wrote:

> I meant no offense. I apologize for the disturbance.

Disturbance? I haven't detected any.

> I had contacted Daniel privately to ask for his help with some of
> the documentation because I like very much the way he is able to
> create formal documentation with a user friendly kind of style. He
> an I disagreed on the approach which is fine - I still greatly
> respect his opinion. I hadn't intended to make a mention to this
> list but during my conversations with Daniel, he mentioned that it
> would be a good idea.

Yeah. However I also said that do it after you have added some
adequate documentation regarding the differences to FM. Not that it's
a big problem that you did it earlier, but things like
object-parameters (as you called them initially) definitely need an
explanation, so until that it's just not too effective to ask for
opinions.

> As to why I started from scratch instead of forked FreeMarker:
> - I really wanted this functionality (I'm sure some people on the
> list are aware that I have been asking it for over 3 years now)
> - Previously Jonathan had mentioned that what I wanted was
> impossible for FreeMarker

(Um... did he?)

> (granted this could be an issue with my
> explanation of what I wanted - which is why I had contacted Daniel for help with documentation)
> - I wanted to start from scratch and not to have to support some
> legacy issues that FM has to (for example having '<' and '[' to
> identify directives because I would like to have a greater
> distinction from XML.HTML nodes and FM directives)

The default/recommended syntax of FM 2.4 and later uses '[' too.

> - I had other things that I wanted to get in as well and didn't
> want to have to ask for permission or explain myself (allowing
> nulls, additional formatting character '|' etc...)
>
> I sent this to this list and not to Velocity because I am not a
> member of the Velocity list and I respect not only the developers of
> FM but the subscribers to this list like Max Anderson and other
> guys.  I just wanted some feedback.  Sorry.

I don't think there was any problem...

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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