Ideas for more use of TT

[Bradley Baetz]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Gervase Markham wrote:

> A refresher look at the TT manual yielded the following ideas:
> 
> Compile Time Constant Folding
> 
> http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Variables.html#Compile_Time_Constant_Folding
> Should we be using this facility for things like VERSION and all the 
> stuff that's always included?

Yes, although we'd then need ot ahve the constants pushed in all teh 
testing places (plus require 2.08). I think we need Bugzilla::Template 
first, so that all this is in one place.

> 
> Autoformat/Wrap
> 
> http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Autoformat
> http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Wrap
> Should we be using either of these plugins instead of Text::Format?
> 

Myk used Wrap for RT.

> Date
> 
> http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Plugins.html#Date
> 
> Should we be using this for the date/time stuff? It delegates to POSIX 
> strftime.
> 

IS that available on windows, is the question.

> GD
> 
> I plan to read up on the GD interfaces and maybe use them for reporting, 
> or the generic charting module :-)
> 

Thats fine

> Gerv
> 

Bradley