Design goals
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- Cover 80% of use cases, don't become too complex  
- Ability to use templates not only from eggs, but also folders and similar
- Python 3 support
- Jinja2 renderer by default, but replaceable
- Ability to render multiple templates to the same target directory

Why another tool
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- PasteScript is a big package with lots of legacy code and noone seems to care about maintaining it (and porting it to python3)
- a tool should do one thing and that thing good, which is where PasteScript fails
- PasteScript works only with Python eggs, mr.bob can also render templates from folder and in future maybe from http links
- PasteScript uses Cheetah which doesn't work on PyPy and has C extensions that need to be compiled
- PasteScript in unmaintainable, with really dodgy code
- PasteScript doesn't preserve permissions when copying/rendering files
- mr.bob is just 200 lines of code with some extra features in mind that PasteScript cannot provide such as Python API to be used by higher level libraries