[IPython-dev] Templating library for IPython

[Brian Granger]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:07 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:05, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > What do people think about this plan?
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>> There's another point in favor of jinja2: it's what sphinx uses.  This
>> means:
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>> - we're already somewhat familiar with it (at least those of us who
>> have messed with customizing sphinx builds at the template level)
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>> - it may make it easier to produce high-quality html via sphinx
>> integration from notebooks.
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>> > How would we handle the dependency issue?  We could put jinja2 in
>> > externals, but we would have to change all of its import statements.
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>> Yes, the dependency question is the one that bothers me...  No good
>> ideas right now, I'm afraid.
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> The notebook has two external dependencies already (pyzmq, tornado).  Why
> should we ship jinja ourselves, especially when it's by far the most common
> and largest of the three?

Yes, as I have thought about this over the past few days, I am more
leaning towards just making it an external dependency.



> -MinRK
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>> Thanks for doing the legwork!
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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