[Typo3-dev] Removal of t3lib/ redundancy?

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> Hi folks.
> 
> With the event of TYPO3 3.6.0 should we finally get rid of (some of) the t3lib/ redundancy?
> 
> 
> The situation is:
> 
> t3lib/ is found twice: In typo3/ and in the root of a site. t3lib/ is 900 files large now (formerly 700)
> gfx/ is redundant THREE times; in t3lib/gfx/, typo3/t3lib/gfx/ and typo3/gfx/ (there are formerly 500. now 800 icons).
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
> - remove t3lib/  from the siteroot and point all usage to [TYPO3_mainDir]/t3lib - this of course requires typo3/ main dir to ALWAYS be available with a website. This kind of dependancy is already a reality since global extensions must be available for the frontend.
> - move gfx/ OUT of t3lib/ and fix it to [TYPO3_mainDir] folder where it is also now. In other words, typo3/gfx/ will be the only position and all usage from t3lib/gfx/ will stop. (this alone will remove 1400 redundant files).
> 
> Finally, an option could be to just do it for the gfx/ icons and leave t3lib/ for now.
> 
> There are still the redundancy of tslib/ and media/ left - this is not solved yet.


the most clean solution would seem to me to have everything in typo3/gfx/

gRTz

ben
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