[Typo3-dev] Very important RFC (ObTS - again)

[dan frost]

Andreas Otto wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 17:20, dan frost wrote:
> 
>>p.s. FYI: it is possible to write the old
>>functions into ObTS - but it's really ugly and not
>>fun.
> 
> 
> Could the first releases of ObTS come with a "Transitional Mode" which allows 
> to move old projects to ObTS without breaking them?

No - The trouble is that lots of TypoScript is (I 
think) unnecessary. Lots of the functions do 
similar things and so implementing them is getting 
really annoying.

It will be transitional in that datatypes no 
available in ObTS will be rendered the old way.

It won't be transitional in that ObTS datatypes 
won't have all the old TS funcitons.

> 
> That way a lot of people would feel encouraged using ObTS without having to 
> fear that their old applications stop running aften installing ObTS.
> 

I agree. I will do it like this:

Release the Object-TypoScript framework with 
instructions on how to build datatypes, functions 
and so on. This way, I can concentrate on the 
datatypes/functions which are important to my 
work, and you lot can do it for your's. I will 
include a few sample-datatypes (TEXT, HTML, a 
half-done FORM, and notes on TABLE).

Also, I'll implement it on a by-page basis. There 
will be an $OBTS 1/0 switch which can be set 
per-page in the TSConfig - pretty much like a 
page-plugin. If set, it will render what it knows 
how to; what it doesn't will remain in old-style.

dan