[TYPO3-dev] Using TS-conf instead of a standard lang for conf?

[Tomas Norre Mikkelsen]

Hi

Ok.. see you point :) only just at thought...

/Tomas

2010/3/6 Steffen Ritter <info at rs-websystems.de>:
> Tomas Norre Mikkelsen schrieb:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have talked to many different people during the days, and we
>> discussed TYPO3 many times. One of the discussions and why the choose
>> not to use T3.
>>
>> Many said: "If i have to learn a new system, it should be based on
>> standards i don't want to have to learn a language like TS too, if it
>> was like xml / xslt or some other webstandard it was a diffent story"
>>
>> What is you comment on this and have this been diskussed in the
>> dev-team before ? Could "we" make T3 stronger with a standard
>> configuration language ?
>>
>> I think so :) But i'm not that much into core development, so i know
>> if its possible or not.
>>
> It's not possible. The "system" is top wide spread and deeply used
> throughout core and all extensions. I think you probably would need to touch
> 90% of all files, all extensions, and break with all habits.
> You would frustate all developers.
> In fact, you would build a complete new CMS.
>
> TypoScript is the powerful heart of TYPO3. In v5 there will be
> "object-oriented" TypoScript 2.0 which already is implemented there.
>
> So If those people don't want to use TYPO3 because of TypoScript, I don't
> think TYPO3 would have been the CMS for their needs anyways.
>
> I personally think think such thoughts are just an excuse to hide personal
> amenities or own lazyness to do some new stuff.
>
> Configuring all things you may do with TS via XML f.e. would be twice
> developers work... So they can only ask for this, since they don't know how
> it goes around.
>
> Sry, probably sound some kind of to strong but I do not think, that TYPO3
> misses anything if these "many different people" could not be reached.
> If it's such important to them, they should join, hire 6-10 Developers and
> ask them to rebuild TYPO3 XML based.
> After one year of work, they would have rebuild the complete core-stuff.
> After another two years all "current extensions" might be ported.
>
> And than you may present the produkt to the "many different people" around
> who payed for the rewrite. Let me guess: Then they would say it is outdated
> or looks ugly or sth. like this. What, does not matter, mainly they do not
> wont to cope with new stuff...
>
>
> Just my meaningless opinion...
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