[Typo3-dev] I don't want to fork!

[David Bruehlmeier]

> Hello Dave,
> 
> maybe I don't understand you right. The discussion started because of 
> the incompatibilities between extesnsions that two address tables cause, 
> fe_user and tt_address. Now you propose to establish a *third* address 
> table? Is that right?

No, I propose to have *one central* table for partners with all common 
attributes. This central table is then linked to all dependant tables 
(like fe_users or others) and all redundant attributes are sync'ed from 
the central table.

I agree that this could be tt_address, no doubt. But the current design 
of tt_address is in no way such that it could be used as a decent 
"central partner storage". That's one of the main reasons why - for my 
partner-extension - I chose to create a new one.

However, my thinking was to get a group of interested developers 
together, take over the tt_address extension and redesign it in a way to 
offer a future-proof solution.

This would then be (one) answer to the original post: some of the 
existing extensions offering address-functionality could be integrated 
into the new tt_address and by sync'ing dependant tables, backwards 
compatibility would still be preserved.

- Dave.