[TYPO3-mvc] shared partials - or let us be able to set a "extensionkey" for f:render

[Franz Koch]

Hey list,

I'm currently working on a website where three extensions work together. 
One extension providing basic/generic models, functions and viewHelpers 
(like for rendering contact informations of persons), another one is 
extending the main extension and reusing parts of it, and of course the 
main extension itself.
Now I wan't to be able to use partials from my generic extension in all 
templates as well as partials of my main extension in my extending one.

I know that I could change the partial folders of all extension to a 
dedicated folder and create copies of the partials there, but I don't 
like that for several reasons:

- I dislike having my generic partials spread and have to keep track of 
changes in order to merge them in my trunk version
- When I think of TER extensions, I would always have to copy their 
probably new partials to my folder, only because I want to reuse them 
unchanged only because I'm also rendering a model of this extension that 
should have the very same look

So my proposal would be to add a new parameter "extensionKey" (or alike) 
to the "render" viewHelper that allows to define from which extension 
configuration the partial/template shall be resolved. Might also be 
useful for widgets (so they may come some day).

What do you think?
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kind regards,
Franz Koch