[TYPO3-dev] General Question on extbase

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

On 2010-02-02 16:02:01 +0200, Peter Russ said:
> As Flow "has undergone some heavy refactoring" and "a few hundred class 
> names have been renamed to enforce more consistent naming conventions" 
> are there any side effects on current extbase development or extensions 
> started on extbase?
> 
> If so does it makes sense to develop on extbase as there might be more 
> of these brakes.
> 
> Your ideas are welcome.

As a core dev I should say: yes, use it, it is our future!

As a regular daily PHP programmer, I would say that it is too early to 
do anything serious with Extbase/Fluid/FLOW3. While Extbase/Fluid 
appeared in the 4.x core, I neither saw any performance tests, nor I 
saw official docs or up–to–date tutorials. This tells me that these two 
extension are not serious yet. So I would not use them in production. 
Even official blogExample fails in various points in its each version 
(including current). The whole thing does not feel like a finished, 
polished and ready to use product.

I appologize for developers of this extensions if it hurts them to read 
the above paragraph.

As to FLOW3, it is still a big sport game from the "let's make it more 
perfect" series. After all these years it is not a serious player yet. 
Sometimes I wonder what will be out first: Zend Framework 2.0 or FLOW3. 
ZF2.0 is going to have all goodies of FLOW3 and more and it is backed 
up by Zend...

All of the above is my personal views and they are not necessarily 
correct. I do not want to argue about them but I will carefully read 
any other people may say about Extbase/Fluid/FLOW3. I am interested in 
this topic too.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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