Thanks a lot :-)
Siegfried Goeschl
> On 17.01.2019, at 19:48, Daniel Dekany <ddekany@apache.org> wrote:
>
> In principle "Who user FreeMarker?" is where such community projects
> appear, but admittedly it's not focused enough to increase visibility
> of this otherwise important category of application. Now, FMPP was
> directly under the "Tooling" menu back then, but I have removed it as
> it wasn't maintained much anymore... not like I know of alternatives
> with similar set of feature though. Now I have put that submenu back,
> but as "File-to-file transformers", and it links to both FMPP and your
> project.
>
> Feel free to improve/replace the project description (with something
> similarly short).
>
> As of freemarker-generator, it provides too little functionality, and
> is too specialized at the moment to include it there. I hoped the
> contributors will put some more work into it, but it seems they won't.
> My idea was that if there's an "offical" CLI/Maven/Gradle tool that's
> sufficiently flexible/generic, then it's more likely that people will
> contribute to that instead of creating their own similar but more
> specialized tools. Obviously at its current stage that won't happen.
> So anyone feels like improving it (it was discussed here how), don't
> hold yourself back.
>
>
> Thursday, January 3, 2019, 10:01:52 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> unfortunately I somehow missed FMPP :-(
>>
>> What do you think about adding a “Community Projects” or “Related
>> Projects” section on the web page?
>>
>> * I honestly think that FMPP and “freemarker-generator” should be more easy to
find
>> * All of these projects allow visitors to play around with
>> Freemarker easily and some of the visitors will become users and maybe contributors
...
>>
>> Having said that I would be very happy with a link - even more
>> happy as part of a " “Community Projects” / “Related Projects” section …
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>
>>> On 03.01.2019, at 20:10, Daniel Dekany <ddekany@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> From a quick look, it has a somewhat similar background than FMPP had,
>>> that is, processing a whole directory of files (or just a file if
>>> that's what needed) without writing specialized Java code, and loading
>>> data from different type of sources, and "transformations". In that
>>> regard, https://github.com/apache/freemarker-generator is also
>>> similar, though it's very very simple, and there the main idea was to
>>> have some "official" Maven plugin for basic code/config generation,
>>> but the intent is that we generalize it, so that it can be called from
>>> Gradle, and command-line as well, and so that it can load from other
>>> data formats than JSON as well. Surely there's a few other similar
>>> project out there too. Obviously we shouldn't have multiple similar
>>> projects under the freemarker.apache.org umbrella, so I wonder if
>>> anything can be done about with these parallel efforts. Like in your
>>> concrete case, if you see any hope for that, merging these efforts.
>>>
>>> But, if nothing else, certainly you can get a link from
>>> freemarker.apache.org. (I will try freemarker-cli when I find the
>>> time.)
>>>
>>> Monday, December 31, 2018, 3:46:15 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I asked many moons ago about contributing a Freemarker CLI (see
>>>> https://github.com/sgoeschl/freemarker-cli) - no idea about the
>>>> outcome, can’t even find the emails :-)
>>>>
>>>> Well, I'm still using the code and it becomes sort of mature
>>>>
>>>> * There is still some stuff I want to implement - mostly better
>>>> handling of hierarchical documents
>>>> * The code is currently written in Groovy but in the long run I
>>>> would like to migrate to Java or Kotlin
>>>>
>>>> And I still somehow think my pet project is of interest for an larger audience
:-)
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Daniel Dekany
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Daniel Dekany
>
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