CREDITS(3)
NAME
Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
DESCRIPTION
This section provides a brief history of the Template
Toolkit and details the primary author and numerous other
people who have contributed to it.
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 bet
ter, 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 work
ing at Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
(http://www.cre.canon.co.uk), 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, giv
ing a major performance boost. As well as the speedups,
there are a whole host of significant new features in ver
sion 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 ver
sion 1.00 was awarded "Best New Perl Module". After
another extended beta release period, version 2.00 was
released on 1st December 2000.
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. - Stephen Adkins <stephen.adkins@officevi
- sion.com>
Chuck Adams <scrytch@uswest.net>
Thierry-Michel Barral <kktos@electron-libre.com>
Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com>
Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Tony Bowden <tony-tt@kasei.com>
Neil Bowers <neilb@cre.canon.co.uk>
Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>
Lyle Brooks <brooks@deseret.com>
Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>
Eric Cholet <cholet@logilune.com>
Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>
Chris Dean <ctdean@babycenter.com>
Francois Desarmenien <desar@club-internet.fr>
Horst Dumcke <hdumcke@cisco.com>
Mark Fowler <mark@indicosoftware.com>
Michael Fowler <michael@shoebox.net>
Axel Gerstmair <anthill@web.de>
Perrin Harkins <pharkins@etoys.com>
Dave Hodgkinson <daveh@davehodgkinson.com>
Harald Joerg <Harald.Joerg@fujitsu - siemens.com>
Colin Johnson <colin@knowledgepool.com>
Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Rafael Kitover <caelum@debian.org>
Hans von Lengerke <hans@lengerke.org>
Jonas Liljegren <jonas@paranormal.se>
Simon Luff <simon@sports.com>
Paul Makepeace <Paul.Makepeace@realprogram - mers.com>
Simon Matthews <sam@knowledgepool.com>
Robert McArthur <mcarthur@dstc.edu.au>
Craig McLane <mclanec@oxy.edu>
Leslie Michael Orchard <deus_x@ninjacode.com>
Eugene Miretskiy <eugene@invision.net>
Keith G. Murphy <keithmur@mindspring.com>
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
Briac Pilpré <briac@pilpre.com>
Martin Portman <mrp@cre.canon.co.uk>
Christian Schaffner <schaffner@eeh.ee.ethz.ch>
Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Paul Sharpe <paul@miraclefish.com>
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Doug Steinwand <dsteinwand@etoys.com>
Michael Stevens <michael@etla.org>
Drew Taylor <dtaylor@vialogix.com>
Swen Thuemmler <Swen.Thuemmler@paderlinx.de>
Richard Tietjen <Richard_Tietjen@mcgraw - hill.com>
Stathy G. Touloumis <stathy.touloumis@edven - tions.com>
Jim Vaughan <jim@mrjim.com>
Simon Wilcox <simonw@simonwilcox.co.uk>
Chris Winters <cwinters@intes.net>
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@andywardley.com>
<http://www.andywardley.com/|http://www.andywardley.com/>
VERSION
Template Toolkit version 2.08, released on 30 July 2002.
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Andy Wardley. All Rights Re
- served.
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe - Ltd.
- This module is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.