http://localhost/ticket/2474 <p> Percieved benefits of switching to Jinja 2 </p> <ul><li>Block inheritance for base templates which is much simpler to understand. </li><li>Large number of developers (and designers) are familiar with it due to its similarities with the Django templates. </li><li>Should be much faster at parsing and rendering templates. </li><li>Has localisation support. </li><li>Good documentation both on it's website and on sites like Stack Overflow. </li></ul><p> We should convert a couple of existing templates to test the switchover and then get peoples feedback. </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/2474 Trac 0.12.3 aron.carroll Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:39:40 GMT http://localhost/ticket/2474#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/2474#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Closing this as we've decided to go with Jinja. </p> <p> There's some basic docs here: </p> <p> <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/doc/templating.rst"><span class="icon">​</span>https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/doc/templating.rst</a> </p> <p> And a template overview: </p> <p> <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/doc/template-blocks.rst"><span class="icon">​</span>https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/feature-2375-demo-theme/doc/template-blocks.rst</a> </p> <p> Generally it's worth looking at the Groups pages to see how they're built. </p> Ticket