lucumr

First of all: Pocoo gets some love recently. EnTeQuAk joined the team and is working on finishing the changes I haven’t finished (conversion to werkzeug and splitting up the packages). That’s great news, but don’t expect checkins the next nine days, he’s on holiday currently.

The other news affects Jinja. The plan was to introduce a new module system for the next Jinja version so that the loaders reload better and that you can use macros without including a module into the current namespace. So {% include foo = “foo.html” %} {{ foo.macro() }} should work.
This however was postponed for a simple reason. The compiler package Jinja is using internally is deprecated because with Python 2.5 the AST is a core Python feature and automatically in sync with the parser Python uses itself. But because maintaining a version for python2.5/2.6, python3 and python2.4 and lower is too much work Jinja will get a hand-written parser for the current syntax.

I expect that this will Jinja also a lot more lightweight because some of the trickeries I do with the AST will become redundant. So that will become the next thing to do.

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