[TYPO3-dev] extension development libraries

[Franz Koch]

> So what my point is: I think many people are doing the same thing right 
> now which makes extension development for beginners more complicated 
> because they don't know what to use. On the other side it is just a 
> waste of time to do so.
> 
> To answer your concrete question: I am willing to spend resources on the 
> development of a GENERAL library, so a real Typo3 initiated idea. I am 
> not willing to just create another library. I think it is important to 
> keep the development in a straight line.

Hi,
I think Jan-Hendrik Heuing currently is going to code some kind of 
extension-framework which provides several apis eg. for DAM-related 
output, general file-handling, the most common display-types of 
extensions (list,single,search,archive etc).
His extensions sound very promising to me and definetly go into the 
right direction in the way of providing missing basic-functions. Have a 
look at:
- dd_extensionframework

and some example extensions:
- dd_annotation
- dd_dam_gallery

This also could be the right direction for the planned portal-features:
- global and flexible commenting-service
- -"- rating-service
- etc.

This could be the base for a "GENERAL" library and api as it currently 
is in active development.

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Kind regards,
Franz Koch