Re: cvs and stuff

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

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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