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6 Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
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10 The Template Toolkit began its life as the Text::MetaText module, orig‐
11 inally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public mani‐
12 festation of an earlier template processing system I developed while
13 working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool -
14 http://www.knowledgepool.com/)
15 Text::MetaText was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw
17 away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what didn't,
18 what was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what could
19 be done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.
20 Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on
22 the Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre
23 Europe Ltd. (http://www.cre.canon.co.uk), involved in a general
24 research programme related to web publishing and dynamic content gener‐
25 ation. The first alpha release was in June 1999, followed by numerous
26 more alpha and beta releases culminating in 1.00 being released on 2nd
27 December 1999.
28 A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to
30 get the template language relatively stable in version 1.00 and not
31 worry too much about performance or other internal matters. Then, ver‐
32 sion 2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the architec‐
33 ture and fix anything that, with the benefit of hindsight, we thought
34 could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version 2.00
35 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which com‐
36 piled templates to Perl code, giving a major performance boost. As
37 well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new fea‐
38 tures in version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal architecture.
39 Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template directives and language
40 have remained the same as in version 1.00
41 Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in
43 time for the 4th Perl Conference where version 1.00 was awarded "Best
44 New Perl Module". After another extended beta release period, version
45 2.00 was released on 1st December 2000.
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48 Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to
49 the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much appreci‐
50 ated. Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from this
51 list.
52 Chuck Adams, Stephen Adkins, Ivan Adzhubey, Mark Anderson, Bradley
54 Baetz, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Tony Bowden,
55 Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Darren
56 Chamberlain, Eric Cholet, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross, Chris
57 Dean, Francois Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael Fowler,
58 Kenny Gatdula, Axel Gerstmair, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin Harkins,
59 Bryce Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth, Harald
60 Joerg, Colin Johnson, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Rafael Kitover, Ivan
61 Kurmanov, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas Liljegren, Simon Luff, Andy Maas,
62 Paul Makepeace, Gervase Markham, Sergey Martynoff, Simon Matthews,
63 Robert McArthur, Craig McLane, Myk Melez, Eugene Miretskiy, Tatsuhiko
64 Miyagawa, Bill Moseley, Keith G. Murphy, Chris Nandor, Leslie Michael
65 Orchard, Paul Orrock, Steve Peters, Briac Pilpré, Yuri Pimenov, Martin
66 Portman, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh Rosenbaum, Christian
67 Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe,
68 Ville Skyttä, Barrie Slaymaker, Doug Steinwand, Michael Stevens, Autri‐
69 jus Tang, Drew Taylor, Swen Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Stathy G.
70 Touloumis, Jim Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters
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73 Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>
74 <http://wardley.org/⎪http://wardley.org/>
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78 Template Toolkit version 2.18, released on 09 February 2007.
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81 Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
82 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
84 under the same terms as Perl itself.
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