web commit by http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/: Argument in favour of Varioki over creatin...

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@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ ManojSrivastava
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+> > I'd argue in favour of this plugin; it's true that a simple plugin can be
+> > used to set a template variable, but that makes it necessary to write a new
+> > plugin for every variable (or set of variables) that are needed. In that
+> > kind of situation, I don't think bypassing the plugin mechanism is a bad
+> > thing, unless an ever-growing collection of plugins to set one or two
+> > variables is a good thing.
+> >
+> > --[[bma]]
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