[development] why not just phptemplate in core?

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 02 Jan 2006, at 1:48 AM, Tobias Maier wrote:
> Is there any reason why chameleon is plain PHP?
historical reasons.
politics.

it's incredibly simple to convert and a LOT more useful as a  
phptemplate theme.
It's forward compatible in that all the functions used only need to  
be changed once.
phptemplate is far far better documented.

> btw. I converted the chameleon theme to phptemplate:
> see http://drupal.org/node/41005

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