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

[Kasper Skårhøj]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 19:19, Michael Stucki wrote:
> Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> 
> > The obvious point of threads about "XCLASSES inheritance" and "10 news
> > extensions, what a mess" is almost always missed;
> > 
> > XCLASSES was meant as a temporary way of extending something. In fact a
> > "last end" thing. It was not supposed to be heavily used in official
> > extensions (hooks should be requested for that long-term). BUT XCLASSES
> > really is a nice way to test and evaluate functionality that candidates
> > for the core! Think positively!
> 
> Just a little question: Since they are meant to be temporary - would it hurt
> if we remove the XCLASS-lines at the end of kickstart-generated files?
> 
> The feature would still be available but it's not so inviting to extend them
> anymore like it is right now...

Let them be - it is better to invite people than if them enter them
themselves resulting in MISTAKES which are soon impossible to correct
because they have been extended by other extensions (being dependant on
the mistake...)

> 
> > 10 NEWS EXTENSIONS is a mess, but when someone finally distills the
> > experience and knowledge from those 10 into the FINAL news extension to
> > beat them all, was it then a waste!? Think about such cases as an
> > incredible base of experience upon which we can consciously join forces
> > to produce the final version! Think positively!
> 
> Yes it's nice, but it's a lot of work for the person who merges them. It
> could be much easier if people would send patches to one single extension
> maintainter.

Thats what I mean. I'm not talking about merging code but concepts.

- kasper




> 
> - michael
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- kasper

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