[TYPO3-core] RFC: Moving foreign scripts/classes/frameworks to typo3/contrib

[Martin Kutschker]

Oliver Hader schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> there are currently some foreign tools "living" in the typo3 directory:
> * ./typo3/prototype.js
> * ./typo3/scriptaculous/
> * ./typo3/json.php
> 
> To avoid losing outline when updates are available to some of these
> frameworks and to provide a clean structure, wouldn't it be better to
> put these external non-TYPO3 files to a separate directory like
> ./typo3/contrib/?

+1

> This was also suggested during the IRRE review meeting in November 2006
> at the University of Applied Sciences in Hof by Ingmar and Sebastian.
> Furthermore Benjamin Back (AJAX pagetree) suggested to have common
> methods like includePrototypeLibrary(). 

What's the stat of t3lib_ajax? Is it still in use or can it be used to 
house tools (like "get me the Js includes") for both BE and FE?

Masi