Subject: Text::Template v0.1 beta for filling in form letters
From: [email-masked] (Mark-Jason Dominus)
Date: 26 Jan 1996 02:14:21 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

TEXT::TEMPLATE VERSION 0.1 beta
25 January, 1996

COPYRIGHT

The Text::Template module is Copyright 1996 Mark-Jason Dominus.
You may use, modify, copy, and distribute it under the same terms as
Perl itself.

DESCRIPTION

This module is for filling in templates.  A template is a regular
piece of text with tiny perl programs embedded in it.  When a template
is filled in, the perl programs are evaluated, and replaced with their
values.  This is useful for generating all sorts of program output,
including HTML pages and error messages.  Templates can reside in
files external to the program that is filling them in, and they can be
modified and maintained by persons unfamiliar with Perl, because the
Perl parts of a template are encapsulated.

PREREQUISITES

Exporter.

HOW TO BUILD AND INSTALL

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test

If it pases the tests, do

	make install

RECENT CHANGES

This is a BETA release.  Future changes are very likely.  Future
incompatible changes are likely.

Changes from 0.1 alpha:

 * All reported bugs fixed.
 * You can now apply `fill_in' to the same template object more than once
   and get a useful result.  If the `source' of the template is a
   file or filehandle, `fill_in' will rewind the file, if possible.
 * Some changes and small fixes to documentation.
 * Default `broken' function is now a little nicer.
 * Added small test program. 

BUGS TO

Mark-Jason Dominus, Plover Systems
[email-masked]

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