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HISTORY
The Template Toolkit began its life as the "Text::MetaText" module,
originally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public
manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool -
http://www.knowledgepool.com/)
"Text::MetaText" was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw
away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what didn't,
what was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what could
be done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.
Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on
the Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre
Europe Ltd. (CRE), involved in a general research programme related to
web publishing and dynamic content generation. The first alpha release
was in June 1999, followed by numerous more alpha and beta releases
culminating in 1.00 being released on 2nd December 1999.
A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to
get the template language relatively stable in version 1.00 and not
worry too much about performance or other internal matters. Then,
version 2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the
architecture and fix anything that, with the benefit of hindsight, we
thought could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version
2.00 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which
compiled templates to Perl code, giving a major performance boost. As
well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new
features in version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal architecture.
Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template directives and language
have remained the same as in version 1.00
Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in
time for the 4th Perl Conference where version 1.00 was awarded "Best
New Perl Module". After another extended beta release period, version
2.00 was released on 1st December 2000.
Version 3 has been in development ever since.
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
The Template Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
CONTRIBUTORS
Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to
the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much
appreciated. Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from
this list.
Chuck Adams, Stephen Adkins, Ivan Adzhubey, Mark Anderson, Bradley
Baetz, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Robin Berjon,
Tony Bowden, Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Norbert
BuchmA~Xller, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Darren Chamberlain, Timmy Chan,
Eric Cholet, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross, Chris Dean, Francois
Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael Fowler, Kenny Gatdula,
Axel Gerstmair, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin Harkins, Bryce
Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth, Harald Joerg,
Colin Johnson, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Alexey A. Kiritchun, Rafael
Kitover, Ivan Kurmanov, Denis F. Latypoff, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas
Liljegren, Simon Luff, Andy Maas, Paul Makepeace, Gervase Markham,
Sergey Martynoff, Simon Matthews, Robert McArthur, Craig McLane, Myk
Melez, Eugene Miretskiy, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Bill Moseley, Keith G.
Murphy, Chris Nandor, John Napiorkowski, Breno G. de Oliveira, Leslie
Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock, Jonathon Padfield, Steve Peters, Briac
Pilpre, Yuri Pimenov, Martin Portman, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh
Rosenbaum, Christian Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul
Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ville Skyttae, Barrie Slaymaker, Doug Steinwand,
Michael Stevens, Autrijus Tang, Drew Taylor, Rod Taylor, Swen
Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Ben Tilly, Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim
Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters
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