NAME¶
Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
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