[TYPO3-dev] tt_news : orphan extension ?

[Franz Koch]

Hi,
> Peter Förger wrote:
>> Right, but after all it's still a CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) 
>> extension, not very spectacular kind of code. (don't get me wrong, I 
>> don't wanna blame Kaspar's, Stig's and Rupi's work on that. I've 
>> honored it a couple of times…)
> 
> Well, this is an old extension. It is impossible to convert old 
> extensions to use newer and modern programming techniques. It is easier 
> to write from scratch. But writing complete new news system would be too 
> big task. And I do not think it is feasible to do it. tt_news still 
> works and works well!

Well, see it from that point. When you start rewriting it from scratch 
in a MVC pattern, or probably even based on FLOW3, you already have half 
of the work done for the news extension for v5.

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regards,
Franz