[Typo3-dev] Make configuration simple

[Elmar Hinz]

Hello!

People still call the learning curve of typo3 steep. One mayor reason 
for this is in my opinion the complex configuration system. There are 
different places of configuration and diffierent formats.

* classical php arrays like $TCA, $locallang, etc.
* typoScript
* XML for language files

I argue that it would be possible to make configuration more easy to 
learn, to do and to look through by doing all configuration with one 
system, with typoScript.

Even language files could be done with it, as long as typoscript is done 
as utf-8. Conversions to other coding systems would still be possible if 
needed in rare cases.

During the next weeks I want to try to workout a draft to show that this 
would be possible at all and to show how a migration could be done with 
respect to backwards compatibilities.

Regards

Elmar



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