[TYPO3-dev] EM, TER2, XML and other animals

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Having spent some time today with the new EM code - there are a couple
of things I still don't understand.

1. If we still have some serialize()d data in the extensions.xml
metadata (dependencies), what's the point of having it as XML at all?
Why not serialize everything and forget the XML parsers altogether?

2. If the XML gets parsed and then converted into "extensions.bin",
"reviewstates.bin", etc., why can't we just download these pre-parsed
files from the repository?

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Dimitri Tarassenko