0.6.0

0.6.0

Released: Sat Jan 21 2012

• [feature] Template caching has been converted into a plugin
  system, whereby the usage of Beaker is just the
  default plugin. Template and TemplateLookup
  now accept a string "cache_impl" parameter which
  refers to the name of a cache plugin, defaulting
  to the name 'beaker'. New plugins can be
  registered as pkg_resources entrypoints under
  the group "mako.cache", or registered directly
  using mako.cache.register_plugin(). The
  core plugin is the mako.cache.CacheImpl
  class.

• [feature] Added support for Beaker cache regions
  in templates. Usage of regions should be considered
  as superseding the very obsolete idea of passing in
  backend options, timeouts, etc. within templates.

• [feature] The 'put' method on Cache is now
  'set'. 'put' is there for backwards compatibility.

• [feature] The <%def>, <%block> and <%page> tags now accept
  any argument named "cache_*", and the key
  minus the "cache_" prefix will be passed as keyword
  arguments to the CacheImpl methods.

• [feature] Template and TemplateLookup now accept an argument
  cache_args, which refers to a dictionary containing
  cache parameters. The cache_dir, cache_url, cache_type,
  cache_timeout arguments are deprecated (will probably
  never be removed, however) and can be passed
  now as cache_args={'url':, 'type':'memcached',
  'timeout':50, 'dir':'/path/to/some/directory'}

• [feature/bug] Can now refer to context variables
  within extra arguments to <%block>, <%def>, i.e.
  <%block name="foo" cache_key="${somekey}">.
  Filters can also be used in this way, i.e.
  <%def name="foo()" filter="myfilter">
  then template.render(myfilter=some_callable)

  References: #180

• [feature] Added "--var name=value" option to the mako-render
  script, allows passing of kw to the template from
  the command line.

  References: #178

• [feature] Added module_writer argument to Template,
  TemplateLookup, allows a callable to be passed which
  takes over the writing of the template's module source
  file, so that special environment-specific steps
  can be taken.

  References: #181

• [bug] The exception message in the html_error_template
  is now escaped with the HTML filter.

  References: #142

• [bug] Added "white-space:pre" style to html_error_template()
  for code blocks so that indentation is preserved

  References: #173

• [bug] The "benchmark" example is now Python 3 compatible
  (even though several of those old template libs aren't
  available on Py3K, so YMMV)

  References: #175