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Greg Stein
gstein at lyra.org
Thu Jun 12 15:12:44 EST 2003
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:52:01PM +1000, Dave Cole wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael C Neel <neel at mediapulse.com> writes: > > Michael> I'll give a second on ezt.py; even though Albatross is my > Michael> first choice. Ezt.py follows many of the same ideals of > Michael> Albatross when it comes to templates, and also is not geared > Michael> only for the web like albatross so it can be handly in other > Michael> apps too. > > Just had a look at ezt.py. It is very similar in structure and > approach to the Albatross templates. Looking at the CVS logs it seems > like ezt.py and Albatross sprung into existence at almost the same > time. Bizarre. The CVS logs from edna are the original location. It was started in February 2001. Then I copied a version over into ViewCVS. Then another copy over into SubWiki. Oh, and there is a copy in Subversion now -- we use it in the build system for generating MSVC Project files (.dsp and .dsw) and for VC.Net files. I also have a couple home projects that use it. One of these days (with all that spare time), I'm going to create a little SVN project area and check in the "reference copy" there, and maintain it there. Then, in SubWiki and SVN (at least), I can simply use the svn:externals feature to yank it into my projects. Eventually, I'll get ViewCVS and edna into SVN and they can directly reference it too... Oh, just for a bit more time each day... :-) But yes, there are some similarities to Albatross. But it seems like Albatross has variables and also makes function calls explicit. I wonder, though: can Albatross be used outside of a markup-based system? Does it assume and take advantage of within-markup-style-text templating? Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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