[Dancer-users] dancer2's prototype is there, feedback needed

[Brian E. Lozier]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:43 PM, David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>wrote:

> On Monday 03 October 2011 17:30:37 Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> > > Changing the template engine to "template_toolkit" simply changes the
> error message to:
> > Yeah, the syntax changed, you should do the following in your config:
> >
> > template: "toolkit"
>
> I'm not sure I really like the change from
> Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit
> to Dancer::Template::Toolkit; the logical layout is a module under the
> Dancer::Template namespace named after the templating engine it uses, i.e.
> "Dancer::Template::EngineName" - e.g. Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit,
> Dancer::Template::HTMLTemplate, etc.  Using just "toolkit" seems a bit
> wrong
> to me - what do you think?
>
> It also seems a bit pointless lowercasing the engine name - we could just
> make
> it so the engine name you provide is whatever you see after
> Dancer::Template::
> with no translation at all - so TemplateToolkit is
> Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit, HTMLTemplate is
> Dancer::Template::HTMLTemplate, etc etc.
>

Just FYI, although the "distro" is called Template Toolkit the actual module
is called only "Template" so if you're planning on using the names directly
to load modules, to get Template Toolkit you'd have to have:

Dancer::Template::Template


>
> What do you think?
>
>
> It just seems a little unintutive to me otherwise, and pretty much
> everything
> about Dancer to date has seemed pretty intuitive to me (it works pretty
> much
> as I'd expect it to, to the point where I can write a big load of code
> without
> consulting docs, and it'll Just Work :) )
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave P
>
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