[TYPO3-mvc] Typo3 4.5 - will all pibase extensions stop working?

[Stephen Bungert]

I just recently started looking at fluid/extbase, I bought he book too.


I started by trying to convert a pibase extension to extbase. It went really 
quick at first, list and everything are all automatically done, there is 
even a way to edit/delete records in the FE! I'm very impressed, I like it a 
lot, I plan on making all new extensions with extbase/fluid - but somethings 
that were easy, or that I knew how to do with pibase, I don't know about in 
extbase - there is still a lot that I have to learn - and getting used to 
the MVC structure. But I am glad that 4.5 is different from 5!

"Martin Kutschker" <masi-no at spam-typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1282553990.20229.typo3-project-typo3v4mvc at lists.typo3.org...
> Am 23.08.2010 10:41, schrieb Stephen Bungert:
>> Ah, so 4.5 is idfferent from 5. Ok! How many more versions will there be
>> then? 4.6? 4.7? Or will all 4.x versions stop once TYPO3 5 is out?
>
> First of all: don't panic :)
>
> Even if 5.0 is out the 4.x branch will be alive. As open source project it 
> will be around as long
> there is interest (even if the original developers have moved off to 
> another "playground"). Keep in
> mind that TYPO3 has a firm support from many agencies around the world, so 
> there is little to worry.
>
>> Someone made the extbase extensions so that we could start developing
>> extensions that would work in typo3 5 now. Couldn't someone create an
>> extension to allow old pibase extensions to function?
>
> Of course "someone" could, but IMHO this in not much reason to do so.
>
>> I have quite a lot of custom extensions written, and
>> lots of modifications to tt_news, it would take quite a while for me to
>> update them all to work with fluid/extbase.
>
>> Is tt_news going to be  re-written for typo3 5?
>
> I reckon that there will be new extensions (packages) for v5 for the most 
> ususal business cases.
>
>> I see that there is already an extension for a
>> extbase/fluid news extension (that should work with tt_news records), 
>> does
>> this mean tt_news will not be converted?
>
> The whole architecture (and methodology) of v5 is so different that I 
> guess there will be no
> "conversions" at all, but rewrites.
>
> I guess that the migration path for an agency will be to create new sites 
> with v5 while still
> staying on 4.x for older sites. Perhaps smaller sites can be migrated 
> easily enough (with wizards
> and tools?)) that you will switch to v5 even for old sites. Time will tell 
> how easy the migration
> will be.
>
> BUT... if you plan to write new extension seriously consider basing them 
> on Extbase.
>
> Masi