[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Change roadmap for 4.5 and 5.0

[Martin Kutschker]

Dimitri Tarassenko schrieb:
> 
> - tslib_db and DBAL should die and be replaced with ADOdb-based layer.
> Along this way, dates/times in the DB should BE dates and times, not
> Unix timestamps.

Yes.

> - TypoScript should die. It's templating functions should be done
> through Smarty which is much more extensible and easier to learn than
> all these wraps/stdWraps. The configuration functions can either be
> switched to XML or kept as key=value pairs.

Ahem, behind TS there is much code that generates the data and it's used to 
configure a lot of stuff.

You can have (and will need) Smarty AND Typescript.

Masi