[TYPO3-dev] Once again - the future of TYPO3 templating/grid approaches

[Georg Ringer]

Hi,

IMO this is quite difficult to solve and I am not sure if the Assocation
can do anything about it.

I of course understand that all those extensions might frustrate people
but there are 2 things I want to highlight:

=== Different things ===

There are 2 features which are too often mixed up:
* FCE: simple content elements with specific fields
* Grids: having the possibility to split content elements into grids
having inside real content elements or grids having ... **recursion**

Those 2 have quite nothing in common and should be ideally tackled in
seperate tasks. Just to mention it here: Yes it would be awesome to have
both in the core as well but those things are really not easy to do.

=== Proof of concepts ===

Just see all those extensions as proof of concept! Extensions are easy
to be forked, fast to be released and changeable because it is "just an
extension".

I also once started once an extension to create FCEs using plain TCA and
it showed great progress the first couple of days but it is not really
simple to have all the features implemented which the core offers ;)

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So how should we as the community go on with it:

* Let the people code their dreams as this is just awesome, doing your
stuff.
* If the author is clever enough he tries to invite as many people to
contribute and tries to incorporate as many ideas as possible, no matter
if he copies ideas or code from other extensions or invents it himself
* An integrator should not just use the current features as decision for
choosing the tool he uses but also the plans for the future and who well
the code is done.

Georg