From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T01:18:54+09:00
Subject: Re: web templating for static sites?

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:37:11PM +0900, Guy N. Hurst wrote:
> So you would like your templating system to be on your local computer,
> generate the static site and then upload it?

Exactly.

> That is how some original website generating programs worked, and I
> have to say that I found those problematic and uninteresting.

It pretty much covers my needs, which makes it interesting to me and
way less problematic than learning server technologies. :-)

> Surely your server can handle CGI pages? Is it that you can't get
> the ISP to install ruby for you?

The server can handle perl and php, and maybe I could get them to
install ruby, but as I said, static, locally built pages cover all my
needs, so I see no point in going beyond.


Massimiliano