[FLOW3-general] Resource Management

[Bastian Waidelich]

Thomas Plessis wrote:

> I'm using Imagine to resize and crop image, like in "Imagine.git".
> After cropping an image, i still have two resources in the database, the old one and the new cropped one. The old one is never deleted.
> Same in Data/Persistence/Resources. How to clean unused resources?

Thats true. Currently you probably need to write some clean up command 
that deletes resources without references..

BTW: In the TYPO3.Media package we introduced the notion of 
"ImageVariants": If you modify an image (resize, crop, ...) the 
resulting Image has a reference to the original image, so you can 
restore it. Therefore we need both references there.

But in general it should be possible to work with resources 
independently from the persistence layer (see [1]).

Best,
Bastian

[1] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/33469