Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.52

At 12:53 AM 3/21/00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>True, but I actually suspect that peopple with a 'strong opinion' would be
>ones that think templates should be as advanced as possible.  People who
>think that templates should be plain and simple probably don't care about
>that enough to subscribe to a new mailing list.

People who think that templates should be plain and simple can use
FastTemplate or phplib if they want to. I'd rather have something that
scales to a wide range of needs.

>As this is a section that, if implemented well, may be considered an
>integral part of the language, I don't think that just a couple of dozen
>people should hear about it.  The dedicated mailing list makes sense for
>the development info, or specific feature debates;  Whether a template
>system should be very complex and duplicate large portions of PHP's
>built-in functionality, or plain simple and just let you separate your
>logic from your presentation (something which is not quite done the way
>the template spec is laid out now) is a general concept question, and I'm
>sure many more people would have something to say about it.

I repeatedly sent messages to PHP3 mailing list asking people to join
php-templates list if they are interested in discussing the template
engine. Those who wanted to did so. Evidently, the rest don't care about it.

-Andrei