[TYPO3-dev] tt_news : orphan extension ?

[Ingo Renner]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:
> 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!

don't be so pesimistic Dmitry, That's actually what I plan to do =) It 
sure will be lots of work, but I think that it will work out cleaning up 
that unmaintainable mess.

Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2