[Catalyst] change helper scripts to use TT?

Sebastian Riedel sri at oook.de
Fri Apr 1 13:49:22 CEST 2005


Am 01.04.2005 um 13:16 schrieb Uwe Voelker:

> Hello,
>
> Catalyst 5 is changing a lot of things - why not change the helper 
> scripts too? :-)
>
> The module Catalyst::Helper could use TT2 templates instead of here 
> documents. The good points would be:
> + easier development
> + better customization (for example I could use my own - slightly 
> modified - templates which already contain the correct author name and 
> so on, or use different httpd.conf snippet)
> + better pod output for Catalyst::Helper (now it also contains the pod 
> of the here documents)
>
> Of course there is also a negative point:
> - this adds Template to the list of needed modules
>
> Furthermore I would like to have a config file for the helper scripts 
> which include custom settings that remain after upgrading Catalyst.
>
>
> What do you think?

It's really a hard decision, there are equally as much TT2 people as 
Mason ones...

--
sebastian




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