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*

[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.