Please help me name my text template module... or else!

[Brian Katzung]

... or else we'll all have to live with my name for it. :-)

I tried posting on comp.lang.perl.modules (I forgot which how-to doc suggested it) when naming Data::XHash and got zero feedback.

Since the Pause naming article suggests mod...@perl.org and module-...@perl.org, I hope I've got the best places now. (If not, where should I be asking these days?)

My "yet another text template module" has these as some major design goals:

• Absolutely bare-bones syntax (it is my hope that even non-programmer users (with some limited training) can edit templates)
• "String-sized" templates (like "useful and still fits in a varchar(255)")
• Control over maximum text length and number of template "steps" executed in order to prevent accidental or malicious denial-of-service attacks
  

It is content agnostic, and initially targeted toward application message localization, but there is nothing that makes it specific to that use. I plan on using it in a CMS system I have in mind, but there's nothing that makes it specific to that either. It's not a derivative of another template system. (I searched CPAN for template-related stuff, including Template::Toolkit and company, Text::Template, and (HTML::)Mason and didn't see anything similar; if I missed another similar package, I would love to hear about that too.)

I've been developing under "Text::TemplateLite" (for light-weight syntax, size, and resource usage), but I realize it's yet another one of those "Simple, Easy, Reduced, Tiny,..." names and I'm hoping someone can share some specific wisdom rather than general guidelines.

  - Brian

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[James E Keenan]

On 10/8/12 5:03 PM, Brian Katzung wrote:
> ... or else we'll all have to live with my name for it. :-)
>
> I tried posting on comp.lang.perl.modules (I forgot which how-to doc
> suggested it) when naming Data::XHash and got zero feedback.
>
> Since the Pause naming article suggests mod...@perl.org and
> module-...@perl.org, I hope I've got the best places now. (If not,
> where should I be asking these days?)
>
> My "yet another text template module" has these as some major design goals:
>

> * Absolutely bare-bones syntax (it is my hope that even non-programmer

> users (with some limited training) can edit templates)

> * "String-sized" templates (like "useful and still fits in a
> varchar(255)")
> * Control over maximum text length and number of template "steps"

> executed in order to prevent accidental or malicious
> denial-of-service attacks
>

Well, at the risk of making "yet another suggestion" for how to get
feedback, let me ask: Have you posted your code on github or a similar
site? Or could you make available the SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION part of
the POD?

> It is content agnostic, and initially targeted toward application
> message localization, but there is nothing that makes it specific to
> that use. I plan on using it in a CMS system I have in mind, but there's
> nothing that makes it specific to that either. It's not a derivative of
> another template system. (I searched CPAN for template-related stuff,
> including Template::Toolkit and company, Text::Template, and
> (HTML::)Mason and didn't see anything similar; if I missed another
> similar package, I would love to hear about that too.)
>
> I've been developing under "Text::TemplateLite" (for light-weight
> syntax, size, and resource usage), but I realize it's yet another one of
> those "Simple, Easy, Reduced, Tiny,..." names and I'm hoping someone can
> share some specific wisdom rather than general guidelines.
>

It may turn out that Text::TemplateLite is the best available name. But
it would be nice to see a bit more before making a final recommendation.

(And names can always be changed.)

jimk