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+[[!tag wishlist]]
+
 HTML::Template is an okay templating kit, but it lacks a lot of powerful
 features and thus makes it rather hard to give an ikiwiki site a consistent
 look. If you browse the templates provided in the tarball, you'll notice that
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 I would be glad to volunteer time to make this switch happen, such as rewrite
 the templates. I'd prefer not having to touch Perl though...
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+Yes, Template::Toolkit is very powerful. But I think it's somehow overkill for a wiki. HTML::Template can keep things simple, though.  --[weakish](http://weakish.int.eu.org/blog/)
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+I'd have to agree that Template::Toolkit is overkill and personally I'm not a fan, but it is very popular (there is even a book) and the new version (3) is alleged to be much more nimble than current version.  --[[ajt]]