[TYPO3-dev] new EXT:categorize to categorize everything

[Franz Holzinger]

Franz Koch a écrit :

>> I remember that static_info_tables required div
>> for unknown reason and it was very irritating to install div for
>> static_info_tables, which was supposed only to provide static data :)
> 
> static_info_tables is providing some API for devs - this API required 
> div for what reason ever.

This has been necessary because the $TCA for the added translated fields 
had not been available in the FE. And the Core team (except Dmitry 
Dulepov) refused to put the additional necessary function 
loadTcaAdditions into t3lib_div. This bugfix has been necessary however.
Unfortunately I did not have enough time to do a more complicated 
improvement for TYPO3 proposed in the Core team list.

Now we have a copy of it (from div) in static_info_tables:

tx_staticinfotables_div::loadTcaAdditions

and therefore static_info_tables does not need div any more.
The major part of the API is coming from the extension sr_static_info, 
which has been an enhancement of static_info_tables. Stanislas Rolland 
has integrated all code of it and new table fields into 
static_info_tables 2.0.0 and he has then marked sr_static_info as obsolete.

Almost every extension developer will need the function loadTcaAdditions 
however, if he writes FE code which it based on the $TCA array. The ECT 
extension div/div2007 will become more and more important for the 
future. This is the only place where you can put important functions 
which will be used in many extensions. It is a library for all needed 
functions which are missing in t3lib_div and pi_base or which are 
improved copies of them.

- Franz