Heads up: Genshi will be abandoned and become obsolete

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 19:05:32 UTC 2010


Forwarding mail from upstream TG developer, Florent Aide.

> Luke,
>
> I have read this:
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2010-April/008721.html
> and that:
> http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk/browse_thread/thread/ec921035779324e9
>
> And I won't reply on your ML because I don't want to subscribe to yet
> another ML but you are permitted to "republish" this communication :)
>
> chameleon.genshi works well with TG2 (I did it already, maybe some
> things have been broken in recent trunk but it should be fairly easy
> to get up again.) There were issues with filters in the chameleon
> implementation but I have seen recent commits that may have fixed
> this. (need to check though)
>
> I for one will not move to a non XML templating engine and I'll
> support Genshi in TG2 as long a I care for TG2. I have production
> applications using TG1 and TG2 for __big__ clients so I think I'll
> continue to support Genshi for some time in TG2.
>
> Moreover, I have __big__ non-web applications that rely heavily on
> Genshi for XML templating, so once again I'll continue to support and
> use Genshi (or chameleon in this case because I don't rely on filters
> in those non-web apps).
>
> This includes Mathieu, who gets from time to time the possibility to
> contribute upstream patches to the projects we use daily... And this
> includes Jon (tg2 committer) who also works with us and is quite
> versed in Genshi use :)
>
> Cheers,
>.
> Florent.


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