On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:52 +0700, burc...@gmail.com wrote: > >From the engineering point of view, you did nothing important. In > fact, I think, you did a bad thing to Django: > By increasing the number of incompatible template engines for django, > you fraction the user base of each one, so you decrease the overall > quality of Django solutions, and Django plugins won't be that good (if > they provide any templates). I believe, new template engine should be > made only if it will be much better than old one (i.e, look at Razor > template engine from Microsoft ASP.NET team). > Your work also makes me think you haven't ever heard of Jinja2 and > Mako, both of which already do what you need (python programming in > templates), but have good documentation and have proper way to connect > to Django. > > >From the teenager point of view, look, you created new cool template > engine! Wow! You rock!
I think this is put a bit harshly. There is absolutely no problem with people developing alternative template systems. If we bundle several with Django, that would indeed create problems of splitting the community, but allowing people to use alternatives has always been part of the philosophy of Django. This particular template system doesn't fit with our philosophy regarding templating, and also would have *very* big consequences for backwards compatibility. The only real criticism here is that Gabriele's work would be potentially much more useful to other people if it was developed as a standalone project rather than as a patch to Django. Regards, Luke -- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying." -- Woody Allen Luke Plant || http://lukeplant.me.uk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
