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Perrin is a contributor to various Perl-related projects like mod_perl, Template Toolkit, and Class::DBI. He is a frequent speaker at OSCON, YAPC, and ApacheCon, and a contributor to several perl-related books.

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Tuesday October 12, 2004
05:31 PM

old templating systems never die

[ #21316 ]
I see from this story that someone is still using HTML::EP and wants to convince others to use it. I intentionally left HTML::EP out of my templating roundup because it was not actively maintained and didn't have the level of caching needed to compete with the others on performance. (Yes, I know, perfect code doesn't need new releases, but things change over time and no release for multiple years is not a good sign.) It used to be one of the most interesting ones, with a nice design based around HTML::Parser, but eventually got eclipsed by new features in other systems which are now much more widely used.

There are still people out there using ePerl too. We get a mail now and then on the mod_perl list asking for help because it won't even compile on newer Perl releases. I wonder if some of the others that seem like leaders today will fall by the wayside in a few years as their maintainers lose interest and their user-communities look elsewhere.


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  • For kicks I downloaded the current version of eperl from cpan it is indeed quite unhappy( and full of yucky c code and configure scripts to boot).

    There is however a debian package that seems to be actively maintained( last release Feb 2004 ). Now sure why the updates are not reaching cpan.
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