I see from this story that someone is still using HTML::EP and wants to convince others to use it. I intentionally left HTML::EP out of my templating roundup because it was not actively maintained and didn't have the level of caching needed to compete with the others on performance. (Yes, I know, perfect code doesn't need new releases, but things change over time and no release for multiple years is not a good sign.) It used to be one of the most interesting ones, with a nice design based around HTML::Parser, but eventually got eclipsed by new features in other systems which are now much more widely used.
There are still people out there using ePerl too. We get a mail now and then on the mod_perl list asking for help because it won't even compile on newer Perl releases. I wonder if some of the others that seem like leaders today will fall by the wayside in a few years as their maintainers lose interest and their user-communities look elsewhere.
Re:eperl still alive and well in debian
perrin on 2004-10-13T16:07:14
Frankly, I can't see a good reason to maintain it. It has been replaced by Text::Template, Template::Toolkit, Apache::ASP, Mason, etc. I would definitely steer people away from ePerl at this point.
