[Typo3-dev] singletons instead of pre-loaded objects

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since this is probably my fault - could you give some nice examples
> where the design of TYPO3 is bad, and how it could be improved? To me
> it looks quite OO, to be honest. Lots of classes, nicely encapsulating
> methods, fetching an instance my makeInstance(), ...

Many classes are just "namespaces" for functions (eg t3lib_div), some 
are just way too huge (tslib_content!) and mix up different 
functionality (eg the mail composing classes also send the mails) or 
have too much functionality (piBase has more stuff then your average 
plugin needs).

Some points are not real issues, but eg tslib_cObj is very hard to 
extend just because of its size (and its - sorry - not really good 
designed from an OO viewpoint).

But well, here we are. It works and is good enough.

IHMO it'd be "fairly easy" to eg replace the mail classes with newer 
ones or create a new plugin base. Other things may be much more 
difficult but not impossible (eg objTS by Dan Frost).

Masi