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

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Franz,

On 4/7/06, Franz Koch <typo3 at fx-graefix.de> wrote:
> Dimitri Tarassenko schrieb:
> > 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?
>
> maybe that would solve the memory problems with the new EM on shared
> hosts that causes a 500 when trying to parse the data.

That was exactly where I was going with this.

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Dimitri Tarassenko