[TYPO3-project-4-3] TYPO3 Distribution Concept for 4.3

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Benni,

sounds great!

While you're at it, something I've wondered about for a long time: Why
is the "basic configuration" section not part of the regular 1-2-3
process any more but instead the user has to click "continue to
configure your installation" to get there? If you could change that to
be part of the 1-2-3 process, that'd be cool!

cheers
Ingmar


Benjamin Mack schrieb:
> Hey all,
> 
> 
> "After discussion with Jeff" (I always wanted to use this line too ;-)),
> we came up with a neat idea on how to finally get a new freesite package
> going, hopefully for 4.3. This can be used as a principal distribution
> concept to package your own TYPO3 flavor.
> 
> For a new freesite / starter package, it'd be great to do some basic
> tasks already taken care of. We thought of these steps that should be
> necessary:
> 
>  * Adding some additional files / DB data to the package
>  * Having some optional latest extensions installed out-of-the-bx
> 
> These steps should be automated and be done right after the
> 1-2-3-installer without any further notification, just as an addon to
> step 3. Through this "hook", companies and organizations can easily pack
> their own distribution as well.
> 
> Basically we imagine something like a distrib/ directory that contains
>  * a distrib_install.php file and
>  * a distrib_insall.sql file.
> 
> The installer then checks after step3 if the distrib/ directory exists.
> if so, the SQL file will be included and the PHP file will be executed.
> 
> Please note, we will *not* change the shipped typo3_src package itself,
> we're talking about the "freesite" package (or whatever you want to call
> it) that will be having this additional stuff, so people can get a site
> in TYPO3 up and running very quickly.
> 
> The simple freesite package would then consist of this:
> 
>  * The typo3_src package
>  * TemplaVoila (yes, unless someone other than myself who does not like
> TV gets his butt up to actually code this idea before I do)
>  * A t3d package, including a default pagetree, a templates folder with
> some TypoScript examples, a datastructure and a couple of template
> objects (maybe from Ron Halls TemplaVoila Framework), a nice default
> theme for the FE (something like the one in the wec_starter package).
>  * The latter two being in the distrib/ directory, the
> distrib/distrib_install.php script would then install TemplaVoila and
> import the t3d package. (or maybe it could fetch the latest TV from TER,
> but it sounds more complicated ;-)).
> 
> The cool thing about this is that the distrib_install.php script allows
> a lot of flexibility as it's pure PHP (e.g. for companies and
> organizations to get out-of-the-box working solutions done) and does not
> require a lot of changes in the Core itself (that's why I'm still aiming
> for a 4.3 inclusion).
> 
> If no one comes up with a better idea and is willing to code this, I'll
> probably get my hands dirty to see what changes are needed for the Core.
> How the freesite package itself will look like then, what will be
> included and when it will be released, does not really matter for now.
> The most important thing for now is that the 1-2-3 installer will be
> ready for this.
> 
> However, once we have this package automatically created by a script, we
> can add it to our releases list next to the dummy and the typo3_src
> package again.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> All the best,
> Benni.


-- 
Ingmar Schlecht
TYPO3 Core Developer