Re: cvs and stuff



I don't really like xslt as a language but i think it will work as good as anything else people have suggested.  If you want a copy of the templates that i was playing with you can get them from gnome.joshuaeichorn.com.  If we use the current template setup we might as well do automatic compiling/caching of static pages since we have to detect browser and language anyway.

And i have to agree with you, Smarty no longer seems to meet its original goals, it sure doesn't seem to be very fast to me, even with a cache.

-joshua eichorn

Paul Cooper wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="Paul Cooper">
[snip]
Whilst I was once an avid supporter of Smarty, I think it's a bad decision
in the long run. It's gone from a nice, simple PHP-based templating system
into a language unto itself, which is crazy.

Given that the GNOME Project has Daniel Veillard and libxml/xslt already,
and that the next versions of PHP will include libxslt support, couldn't we
use a real standard, that happens to have a C-based processor behind it?

It doesn't chain us to PHP, it gives us some excellent potential for i18n
(xml-i18n-tools, or intltools now), and allows us to reel in data from any
source that provides XML output (I'm doing this with bugzilla at the
moment).

Well I've never used smarty so I can't comment on it's suitability.
However I have used xml + xslt (sablotron) in PHP and really like the
setup. As yet I haven't got libxslt support in PHP to compile right yet
but the new xslt interface is nice.

I would suggest this may only be needed by a few areas of the site - I
mean on a dynamic basis - the rest could be authored in xml then
'compiled' into a static page. Seems to be (roughly) how things are done
now?

Beyond that argument, perhaps we need to come up with a status report, and a
list of everything that has been decided, things pending, and a list of each
piece of the website we're putting together.

I agree. Some thoughts;

I think we started to get a design nailed down (or did we? ;-) I just
can't find a URL in the archives.

The software map is close to being replaced - there is a new trove based
verions by steve fox, see http://gnome.foxhut.org/softwaremap/

The gnotices squishdot has been patched and improved. The trove needs to
create an rss feed and squishdot/zope needs to add rss syndication to
display this. (steve fox, micheal r berstein)

Also noticed a message in the archives from Christian Schaller about
short-term v long-term. One of the short term items was a search engine
for the site and I think Joshua Eichorn has done some work on this. Any
other short term stuff?

Can we get as much of this in cvs as possible?

What have I forgotten?

Paul

Thanks,

- Jeff

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