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eudicots / Cactus

Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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jinja2 templates? #159

Closed elguavas closed 9 years ago

elguavas commented 9 years ago

hi again, last question for now ;) .

it seems sad that cactus pulls in all of (a very old 1.5) version of django just to use the templating engine. is it possible that cactus will eventually support, for example, jinja2 templates, which django itself now officially supports as of version 1.8?

seems like it would be much lighter just to rely on a modern templating engine rather than a (currently ancient) version of django.

just general questions, no expectations. i'm an open source developer myself and i have a full understanding of the time constraints of volunteer developers.

cheers.

fedelibre commented 9 years ago

more information on issue #117

elguavas commented 9 years ago

ok, thanks for the pointer. it's interesting that django itself now supports jinja2 templates, i wonder if that makes it any easier to add support to cactus.

krallin commented 9 years ago

The main reason for not upgrading to newer Django is Python 2.6 support, which was dropped after Django 1.5.

I'll probably work on solving this, but it's not done yet.

Cheers,

fedelibre commented 9 years ago

@krallin thanks for working on this, I think it's a very desirable feature. I don't think that anybody care for python 2.6 support.

elguavas commented 9 years ago

i agree would be nice, thanks @krallin ;)

stefanooldeman commented 9 years ago

:+1: I agree, please consider

krallin commented 9 years ago

@fedelibre,

I think it's a bit dangerous to just disregard whomever might be using Python 2.6. Another concern with upgrading is that some plugins might tie into Django internals directly, and those have changed a bit since Django 1.5.

Basically, I have more work to do on identifying what has changed before we can upgrade.

Cheers,