Sorry all, I think I got my conversations mixed up. I was thinking this was the whitespace conversation also going on.
2012/2/26 Łukasz Rekucki <lreku...@gmail.com> > On 26 February 2012 05:55, Joe & Anne Tennies <tenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > While this would be a valid argument if Django templates only rendered > HTML, > > that is not the only thing it can be used to render. > > > The original poster gave a very good example of a text-based email. > > This is pretty much the only valid use-case: human-readable markup > which cares about whitespace. But I don't see how multiline tags help > here, as now you have a mix of text that does and doesn't care about > whitespace, So when reviewing the template, you can't see the layout. > > > I could list lots of other formats in which white space must be followed > to even be useful (like .CSV). > > Please don't use templates to render CSV, that's like using regular > expressions to parse XML. Most of data exchange and configuration file > formats have libraries to serialize them. So no, that's not a use > case. > > > I have used Jinja2 on multiple occasions to render C code that needed to > be > > code reviewed. > > While I have nothing against rendering C code with templates, I pity > the person reviewing it - why would you force anyone to review > auto-generated code? > > I'm -1 on this until someone actually provides a patch with no > performance hit. Really, we know people fork Django for their private > use. If this is such a big deal, we should have at least one person > using this in production for a while now and have an excellent quality > patch to show. > > > -- > Łukasz Rekucki > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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. > > -- Joe & Anne Tennies tenn...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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.
