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

[Martin Ficzel]

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?

it would be good to get an information from the core dev's to clarify
the official position to this problem

there are 2 options

[ ] 1. typo3 is a professional tool for dedicated servers. problems with
some shared hosts will be ignored.

[ ] 2. we see that the new em is consuming a enourmous mass of ram but
wi did'nt find the time to fix it yet. lets discuss how to make it better.

if this question is answered we can think about the rest. until now i
did't see any official statement of the concerned developers. there are
many posts about that and it seems we are talking with the wind.

regards Martin


PS: maybe there is a third option

[ ] 3. we would like to optimize the em but until now we couldnt
organize the money for paying a developer to do so. in that case lets
think about donating for that.

PPS: i personally think that the em should not crash on any system. the
extension list is getting bigger and bigger and the em should be able to
handle an unlimited lists of extensions. everything else is design
problem and with more extensions even dedicated servers will run into
problems onde day.