On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:25:39 -0500 Ken Manheimerklm@digicool.com wrote:
[Christian tismer is having problems migrating a bunch of maillists to the new version, specifically because of the skew in customized (and even non-customized!) list web page templates. It brings up what i think is a substantial question about the template mechanism. I want to put the issue out there, see what the prevailing wisdom is. Details below...]
I share his concerns, and am running into a few similar problems with clients I'm deploying MailMan at. Further, while the template structure is useful, the ability to define complex nodes for the templates is not wonderful.
eg When the HTML for the list introductory description (that gets inserted into the listinfo page) is non-trivial, is is an absolute bitch to edit and correct in the provided form.
Getting http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev/ to look right took almost an hour. It still isn't quite right, but I've given up trying to fix the last niggles figuring its "good enough".
Note: The only editing I did on the template was on the archives section as I don't use pipermail. All the rest is via the template expansion.
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