Template Toolkit Version 2.07 17 April 2002 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. HACKER'S GUIDE -------------- Please hack on the Template Toolkit. It has been designed to be extensible and has literally dozens of programmer hooks that you can tap into to do all sorts of cool things. The object oriented architecture allows you to create your own subclassed modules to implement your own services, providers, filters, plugins, and so on. The Template::Manual::Internals document gives a brief overview of the architecture. Unfortunately, it's not as complete as it could be, but the code is well documented and generally easy to follow. Don't be afraid to use the source, Luke. The internals document also contains information about preparing and applying patches, updating the documentation and various other useful tips. The documentation is all built from source templates in the 'docsrc' directory. This includes the 'README', 'INSTALL', 'HACKING' and 'Changes' files which can be found in the 'docsrc/src/Release' directory. The 'docsrc' bundle is a separate distribution available from the TT web site. The 'docsrc/bin' directory contains scripts for rebuilding the documentation. See the 'docsrc/README' file for info. If you're in the business of building a distribution (that usually means me, but hey, you never know) then you'll need to have the latest CVS sources which includes the 'bin/release' script. This rebuilds the documentation, runs the tests, fixes up the Template/Config.pm file to a sane state and builds the distribution archive. The 'bin/docsrc' script builds the docsrc.tar.gz distribution for the latest release. This document will be integrated with Template::Manual::Internals at some point, probably as a separate hacking tutorial or something similar. AUTHOR ------ The Template Toolkit was written by Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org> with the invaluable assistance and contributions from many other people. See Template::Manual::Credits for details. COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.