kosh@aesaeion.com wrote:
You can write bad python pretty easily
Now that I really do disagree with! What are you basing that statement on exactly?
python. Many people have been encouraged to write bad DTML from lots of sources on zope.org. Even the zope book has had some pretty bad examples which does not help the issues.
Maybe the fact that so much bad stuff has been written in it says something about it? Maybe you're a perl user too?
Well I don't run a windows OS and do all my devel on linux.
Good for you :-)
It's gonna be supported longer, it was better designed for the task, etc. I could go on but you won't believe me anyway and I'm close enough to RSI-land anyway...
I doubt support for DTML can be pulled for a good while.
Re-read what I typed ;-) It won't ever be pulled, but it will slowly fade into disrepair and no longer be used except by all the most die-hard fanatics like yourself...
Talk to TheJester he has some very good arguments for why DTML needs to stay around.
Andy Milton has a lot of arguments. I wouldn't describe most of them as 'good'...
I think ZPT was designed for a task of allowing web designers to work on stuff and insulate them from the code. The problem I see is that it took so long to get python script in zope. It encouraged people to put lots of logic in DTML since external methods are a pain by comparison. If examples where updated that seperatd the logic into python scripts and the presentation in DTML it would work well.
What has any of this to do with whether or not ZPT is a better choice for templating than ZPT? cheers, Chris