[drupal-devel] phptemplate in core?

[K B]

Good approach and reasoning.

Regarding Pushbutton, it is one of the widely used themes out there.
Since there is a phptemplate version exists, we'd better include it in
core.

On 5/1/05, Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> wrote:
> 
> On 01 May 2005, at 18:29, K B wrote:
> > Regarding removing xtemplate engine, why not leave it in core? At
> > least for 4.7, then remove it in 4.8 so people have a transition
> > period.
> 
> The problem with the Xtemplate engine is that its code is dated.  If
> you use Xtemplate in combination with PHP5, it is generating lots of
> warnings which we are currently suppressing in a rather hack-ish way.
> To fix this properly, we would have to rewrite large parts of
> Xtemplate.
> 
> I don't think we need to drag Xtemplate along in Drupal 4.7:
> - We can announce in advance that Drupal 4.7 will no longer support
> Xtemplate.
> - We will maintain Xtemplate in the contributions repository so it will
> remain available.
> 
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
> 
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