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From Warren Young:
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.