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

[Chi Hoang]

Hello,

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?

I have published an extension that will do all the trick.

http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/ch_lightem/1.0.0/

I hope you like it.

Greetings,

Chi