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

[bernd wilke]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:35:03 +0100 Tomas Norre Mikkelsen wrote:

> 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"

I think a conversion of existing TS-structure to XML (and back) is 
possible, but it would not help anyone to have the tree-structure of TS 
wrapped in XML. (just XML needs much more bytes to represent the same 
data)

As far as you don't understand the concept of TS as an array which 
controls the page generation you will have problems with TS.

every now and then people try to 'program' with typoSCRIPT - and fail.
as TS is no programming language but a configuration. The naming is 
misleading :-(
you need to understand this completely different concept. 

and trying to change the controls into a programming-language would need 
to change the complete page-generating process.
 
> 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.


bernd
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