[MTOS-dev] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Byrne Reese]

Could you give a basic overview of what Typist is and how it might work?
E.g. What would be its package structure for example, what does it do, what
does it not do?

* Does it include the rendering, template tag processing engine?
* Is it responsible for outputting files to disk?

You know what I am driving at?

On 3/13/08 4:31 PM, "Timothy Appnel" <tim at appnel.com> wrote:

> On 3/13/08, Byrne Reese <byrne at sixapart.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have started putting together some project ideas on the wiki for Google's
>>  Summer of Code 2008. I would love to hear what people think and I encourage
>>  everyone to add your own ideas to the list, or augment the ones already
>>  there.
> 
> I already put my name under the CGI::Application item since its been a
> "thing" of mine that I've put a fair bit of thought into.
> 
> I have another idea I wanted to float before adding it to the list.
> 
> I've been pushing the idea of making the base MT template engine
> available for use by the general perl (CPAN) developer community. I
> went so far as to start fleshing out what that might look like[1], but
> ran out of time and that was before MT4 was even started. I did come
> up with a name (Typist) and secured the namespace in CPAN. (I'm kind
> of fond of it.)
> 
> What does everyone think? The idea would be that, like DOD, this would
> exist separately in CPAN, but form the basis of MT's template engine.
> I think done correctly some forms of reusable general purpose tags
> could follow this in to CPAN.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> <tim/>
> 
> [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Typist/