_brian_d_foy wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Perl Authors Upload Server
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> modid: CAM::Template
>
>
>> similar:
>> HTML::Template
>>
>> rationale:
>>
>> This module used to be proprietary code of Clotho Advanced Media
>> ("CAM") but is now released under the GPL.
>
>
> CAM makes me think of "Computer Aided Modeling". i don't think
> anyone is going to think "Clotho".
>
> how is templating system different from the many others?
>
You have a good point. "Clotho" would perhaps be a more readable
prefix. However, we have been using the "CAM" root namespace for a long
while, internally and on customer sites. We would prefer to leave it as
"CAM", but will change it for public releases if there is strong objection.
>From a public standpoint, the main advantage of our templating system
over HTML::Template is that ours supports an easily modifiable template
syntax. I currently use CAM::Template to support two incompatible sets
of templates.
>From a personal standpoint, the main advantage of CAM::Template is that
it supports the specific template syntaxes that are used in our projects
(selfish, I know).
Furthermore, the CAM::Template API is extended in a few subclasses that
we use internally (not yet publicly released): CAM::EmailTemplate
(sending templated email messages) and CAM::Template::Cache (storing the
filled template in a MySQL cache).
Chris Dolan
