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

Daniel Dekany wrote:
> Monday, June 30, 2008, 3:38:46 PM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Whatever... yes.

I just checked in a FM2.4README.txt that covers certain things. It may 
be that it would be better as simply extra entries in the CHANGES part 
of the manual.

OTOH, I am really kind of at the point here, where I just want to shove 
this thing out. This is at least a year overdue now, possibly more like 
two years. Things like the lack of a null keyword that people have been 
screaming about for ages have been addressed in the trunk for nearly 2 
years, I think.

So, I say at this point, pleeeeeze just roll up the distro and put it 
out there.

JR



> 
>>> 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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