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Template Toolkit

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 ;))

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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*

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.

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

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

TT is pretty cuddly compared to BML :)

*G*

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

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 ;)

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.)