[Typo3-dev] New extension: tpg_mp3editor

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Thomas Murphy wrote:

>> Why do you include them? Convenience is a nice thing but IMHO it's not 
>> so very clever if everybody starts writing extensions which include 
>> 3rd party libs.
> 
> But TYPO3 hasn't any kind of automatic dependency solving, therefore IMO 
> it does make sense to include the library.

Don't get the reference of dependency solving?

>> Perhaps you could go the NF_nusoap-way, ie have one extension hold the 
>> mp3-lib and make your real extension dependent on it. So other 
>> extensions may use the the 3rdp-party lib as well.
> 
> Yes, maybe it's the best way to solve the problem after all.
> But that makes two extensions more bloating up the TER - no offense - 
> and it's already a bit confusing to browse this huge list, not even to 
> mention the time it takes for the list to load...

You're right the list is long. But see it this way, it shows that Typo3 
has in fact a large developer community :-)

BTW, I suggest "Libraries" and possibly "API" as a category for the 
mp3id-extension.

Masi