PEAR Dependency Removed
2009.05.06 17:10
The Templation repo just received its first commit in over a year. I tagged beta3.1 for the handful of people that are still on PHP 4, and migrated from PEAR_Error to PHP 5 native Exceptions. That allowed the removal of PEAR, which now means Templation is a trivial install in any PHP 5 environment.
These days I'm using Templation as an aid for designers working on HTML for Rails applications without the need to get the whole Rails stack up and running. It works with the default Apache/PHP build in OS X now, which greatly lowers the barrier to entry.
Future development will continue along these lines--leveraging PHP's strengths. No external dependencies. Easy installation and upgrade. Unified includes/_data directories (and _data directories allowed at any level). Moving /cache out of /data. Unit tests. And quite possibly a default Rails install file layout.
Stay tuned at darwinweb
