On Jan 13, 2016, at 7:30 AM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
Sawyer> What do you think should be our next major focus? Would you like to Sawyer> help? Let us know!
I'd love to see expanded skeletons
Long ago, I proposed that dancer2 be expanded to understand all of the available template engines. The current version is hard-coded for Template::Toolkit, which means playing with a different one means you have to understand both it *and* the template engine you actually want to use, so you can translate the generated code. This is less trivial than it sounds. For instance, from views/layouts/main.tt: <meta charset="<% settings.charset %>"> needs to be changed to this for Xslate: <meta charset="<: $settings.charset :>”> The obvious change is the bracket style, but how much user brainpower is wasted figuring out that you need $ in the second case? It threw me for a while, at least! The fix is fundamentally simple: add something like “-t xslate” which selects a different set of skeleton files. Then all that’s needed is for someone to manually translate the standard version for each template engine. Incidentally, I notice that the initially hidden box underneath “About your application’s environment” in the app generated by dancer2 is missing two values. It looks like perl_version and settings.apphandler were defined in D1 but aren’t in D2, but someone translated the code without checking for this regression.