[Typo3-dev] Welcome back in the "goto-age"?

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi dudes,

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] wrote:
> The idea is still there - but only "cracks" whould add such lines>

I suppose you are referring to people who have taken crack. :-)
Otherwise it still makes no sense to me.

If you MANUALLY have to EDIT a file in order to XCLASS it, you can just 
as well do your changes right there in the file.

Suppose you want to do a change to tt_news that is very custom to your 
installation and not interesting for anyone else.

The advantage of XCLASSes here is, that you don't have to manually edit 
the class.tt_news_pi1.php each time you update tt_news via the extension 
manager.

If we - however - followed Stucki's suggestion and removed the lines 
that include XCLASSes from tt_news, that whole advantage would be 
spoiled because on each update of tt_news the lines in question would 
have to be added.

So let's not argue about that any longer, there are persons who do see 
andvantages in the concept of XCLASSes (though I agree that XCLASSes are 
often misuesed), and eleminating those advantages would really be a 
major downgrade for TYPO3.

>> The advantage of them currently is, that you can add functionality 
>> *without touching the original file*!
>> What you suggest, removes this advantage, so you can also drop the 
>> whole concept of XCLASSes.
> 
> 
> Not removing the concept, removing the possibility for wood-and-green 
> devs. (HORRAY! I INVENTED A WORD :))

...and adding extra work on every extension / core update for the 
advanced users. No thanks.

Those who are really interested in stopping the XCLASS chaos go ahead 
like Rupert and combine everything into one clean and feature rich 
extension (cheers to him for that!).

- Ingmar