Re: zope.pagetemplate new install dependencies introduced since 3.5.0 and a modest proposal.
Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > I will revisit chameleon. One thing I note that chameleon uses python as > default expressions where as zope.pagetemplate (and all our > code) uses tal expressions as default, and "python:" when we want python. > If that default behaviour can't easily be changed (I can't find anything in > the docs on this) it would mean a lot of rework, in just 2 projects we have > over 500 different .pt files ( sure some global search and replaces will > help, but still a lot of changes and testing. Changing the default expression is easy. z3c.pt does exactly that to keep compatibility with zope.tal. > So at this point chameleon needs to be api/implementation compatible with > zope.pagetemplates (metal included) or its a big job > shifting. It is 99% compatibile. The only real difference is, that it requires all your templates to be valid XHTML. Otherwise almost all of Zope2/Plone with all kinds of weird code works. > Hey it was just a suggestion and if people think zope.pagetemplate is a bit > of a dead end, then maybe I should invest the time > on chameleon I think zope.pagetemplate is a dead end for anyone not using one of the large frameworks. Hanno _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )