How to use own templates

[gergap]

Hi,

I need to use a slightly modified TT2 template,
but at the moment I don't see a way to use it,
because both absolute and relative paths are not allowed.
Maybe this was different in older versions of TT or I overlook something.

By default the code searches for the template in /usr/share/perl5, the default perl5 installation path on Debian Linux.

using the options prove -l -m -P HTML=outfile:html/index.html,template:/path/to/ansi_report.tt2 ...
you get this error:
file error - /path/to/ansi_report.tt2: absolute paths are not allowed (set ABSOLUTE option)

using the options "HTML=outfile:html/index.html,template:../path/to/ansi_report.tt2"
file error - ../path/to/ansi_report.tt2: relative paths are not allowed (set RELATIVE option)

To fix this we we need to change the code in HTML.pm to allow ABSOLUTE
see also http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Config.html#section_ABSOLUTE

As a temp. workaround I copy the template into /usr/share/perl5. But that's abviously not a good solution.

[eserte]

I also stumbled over this problem and opened https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132071