[TYPO3-dev] Announcing "The Bridge" to FLOW3

[Jochen Rau]

Karsten Dambekalns schrieb:
> Right. If I'd have to sort those in order of "completeness" regarding 
> the way of working with FLOW3 it would probably be:
>  - gimmefive
>  - thebridge
>  - FLOW3

Karsten is right. You should also consider that the gimmefive and 
thebridge differ in their conceptual design:

1) gimmefive (backport = copied and adapted code)
+ independent from FLOW3
+ runs under PHP5.2
+ relatively feature stable
+ fast
- a little bit outdated (it's too much workload to backport the code 
after every revision of FLOW3)
- relatively small (but important) feature set of FLOW3 can be tested 
(Dependency injection, Autoloader)

2) thebridge (new bootstrap instanciates FLOW3; some tweaks because of 
routing)
+ nearly all implemented features of FLOW3 can be used/tested (including 
the persistance layer)
+ you are able to code native FLOW3 packages and test them in a TYPO3 v4 
installation
+ cutting edge development
+ a feeling of TYPO3 v5 is already up and running ;-)
- depends on a running FLOW3 installation and therefore on PHP5.3
- slow (two frameworks are running in parallel)
- cutting edge development

I recommend to use thebridge as a test bed if you can (installing PHP5.3 
is an obstacle). Anyway, it's worth for experienced programmers to spend 
some hours of experimenting with FLOW3 by now. It's fun ;-)

--Jochen