Template Toolkit

[yvi]

This week, I am planning to start working on a patch that will require creating a new page. ( http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1843 )

From this post, I gather that it would be good if it could be done in Template Toolkit right from the start, am I correct?

Related questions: Is the end goal to replace all BML pages? If so, and if one feels the desire (I am looking at you, recent_comments.bml!), can we just open bugs and convert the pages? Is there going to be some organized push towards that goal? (it seems like a nightmare, but a few converted pages a month and it should be done in 2012 ;))

Comments

[mark]

Yes, I'd prefer all new pages to be TT. :)

The end goal is to remove BML entirely. You're welcome to convert pages to TT, we will try to push in that direction at some point, but probably not until the fall at least.

[afuna]

Yup, the end goal is to replace all BML pages. There are still some things missing in TT (form_auth for example), so I suppose that it's not yet practical to have everything new be TT, but as much as is possible, go with TT *G*

[yvi]

Do you think it woudl work for this project? I am just going to make something like http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/popsubscriptions , with interests and then a link to a further page where all people in the circle that have that interest are listed. Doesn't sound too fancy to me, but TT is so far still a complete mistery to me.

[afuna]

Yup! I think that would be pretty good to start learning TT with .

[yvi]

You realize I am terrified over here, right? :)

[denny]

TT is pretty cuddly compared to BML :)

[fu]

*G*

Oh hey, have you seen the intro to TT wiki page yet? http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Template_Toolkit

[yvi]

I did and I am afraid it just confused me. Maybe when I go through it step-by-step again it will stop doing that to me ;)

[kareila]

Oh, good - if form_auth doesn't work yet, I can keep coding my vgifts admin page in BML.

(It has eaten my brain for the past four months and converting it to TT would break me at this point.)

[fu]

IMO, since the vgifts page is already coded, it's already old code (even if it hasn't been committed yet). In other words, carry on!

[kareila]

Half-coded at any rate. :)

[mark]

PS, fu.

[fu]

Ooh, yeah.

[allen]

I tried converting allpics over to TT for bug 1433, but eventually gave up, worried that I might break something that already worked. But I'm using it for the new logged-in Protected page (bug 2138).

...I'd call the TT support in DW still in the experimental/alpha stage. It works, but it's still pretty rough around the edges. In other words, if you start trying to use it and find that you can't get something to work, it's very possible that it's because it just doesn't work yet, rather than you not having been able to figure it out.

[exor674]

But if you find something that doesn't work, poke Dre so she can look into it!