[TYPO3-v4] The future of ExtJS 4 in TYPO3 4.7

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Olivier,

we've had the contact with Sencha guys before, but the general model of 
development on their end hasn't changed.

The problems a lot of core developers noted in the beginning, i.e. that 
their development model is a pretty closed shop, with necessary bugfix 
releases not being published and no way for the OpenSource community to 
supply fixes or even see the version control system hasn't gone away. 
Adding on to it, the problems with ExtJS 4 are major, and the 
architectural changes it brought have made huge work on our side 
necessary to keep up with it. We have gone quite far down that road and 
still haven't arrived anywhere useful.

What I would take as a conclusion is that we shouldn't make ourselves 
dependent on it any more. It's OK to use it for some widgets, and with 
TYPO3 4.8 we should take the excellent work on the migration from 3 to 4 
that is done so far and integrate the bits where it makes sense.

At the same time, however, I would like to see a strategy switch away 
from it for the overall Backend layout, as that is a use-case that is 
much better and more cleanly accomplished with a lightweight, 
progressive enhancement-like library.

cheers
Ingmar


Am 12.01.12 11:44, schrieb Olivier Dobberkau:
> Am 12.01.12 10:49, schrieb Oliver Hader:
>
> Hi Olli,
>
>> Thanks for your feedback on this and the offer to connect us directly to
>> responsible Sencha guys.
>
>> The plan is not to remove or drop ExtJS totally. We already have
>> components on the Core that rely on ExtJS and cannot easily be ported to
>> something else since it would turn into a complete rewrite. Thus, ExtJS
>> 3 for sure will stay in the Core - but for TYPO3 4.7 we should not
>> integrate ExtJS 4 as the one-and-only framework (due to the earlier
>> mentioned facts of backward compatibility).
>
> Thanks for your clarification. I still think we should add Sencha to
> this discussion.
>
> I will forward a link to it to the persons i know there.
>
> Who can they contact?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier