On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >On Thu, Dec 18, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> Is there any reason why the perl-www package doesn't contain HTML::Template? > >No, it simple wasn't added, because no one asked for it until now ;-) > >Well, OTOH I think, it first would be in perl-xml and not perl-www, >because perl-xml has all the XML/XHTML and SGML/HTML parsing modules. >Second, the HTML::Template module I personally find not very useful, >because it is very special and multiple more functional and generic >alternatives exists, e.g. HTML::Mason, HTML::Embperl, etc. So, wouldn't >it be better to include those into perl-xml or perl-www?
I think that perl-www is the place for it since it's complementary to the CGI::Application module that's in perl-www now. The others may well be more useful, but for many HTML::Template may be sufficient (for that matter, zope is probably better -- but it has a very steep learning curve :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Microsoft IIS has more holes than a wheel of Swiss Cheese after a shotgun blast'' -- John Dvorak ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
