[TYPO3-50-general] directory layout

[Martin Kutschker]

Dan Frost schrieb:
>>That means: If a component (extension, plugin ...) wants to provide an
>>image for example which should be accessible from the web, it has to
>>upload that file to the content repository during the installation
>>procedure (or later) and then the file will be mirrored into the
>>filecache directory (eg. filecache/public/packages/ttnews/myimage.gif)
> 
> An alternative solution is to have a "public" or "web" folder in each
> extension which is either symlinked or aliased (using apache aliases).
> 
> This means no copying at deployment time, which is much nicer.

But relies either on an OS/filesystem feature or a web server configuration 
which is not so nice. I want specifically to avoid the latter. But TYPO3 
could be configured to use symlinks instead of copies for package resources.

Masi