Re: My stab at the templates

[Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug org>]

On 19 Jun 2001 00:53:01 -0500, Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> Perhaps starting with the system from one of the above mentioned sites 
> would be a good idea if their stuff works well.  Or at least getting
> feedback about what they spend most of their time doing when it comes
> to multi-lingual stuff would be invaluable.  Creating a templating 
> system and methodologies for handling a themable and multi-lingual site 
> shouldn't really be what this group has to deal with.

Good idea. I'll ask the Mandrake folks about their site, as well as the
SourceForge folks. I'm the nut who suggested we use SF to begin with so
maybe it'll turn out to be an ok solution? :) They are just about ready
to release version 2.6 which has a lot of cleanup and some really nice
improvements.
 
> Java is wonderful as long as you don't need to use AWT, Swing, or any of
> the other horrible associated class libraries.  But let's not start a 
> language war - if group is anti-Java, you won't hurt my feelings.  I just
> wanted to provide Fabric as an option - it's why we GPLed it.  It is also
> what www.gtk.org will use, and the group would get a lot of help from me
> if we went with Fabric.  I'd be more than happy to provide the initial site
> structure code and the application repository for example.

If it's being used for www.gtk.org then I'd sure like to hear what
others have to say about it. Maybe I'm the only anti-Java person here :)
Or maybe I'm just pro-PHP?

> The key thing is seperation while avoiding translation tables and the 
> need for any code duplication.  Once you have that, the system should be 
> pretty good.

Again, I've never done a translated site before. Being that translation
is such an important topic, I'll be happy to use whatever everyone else
decides upon...but PHP would make me most productive.

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Steve Fox
http://k-lug.org