[TYPO3-core] RFC: Make the "Doc" module a sysext

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey guys,

OK. here is an updated patch as well as an updated extension for trying out:

Some facts:
* Label is now called (as before) "Open Documents"
* The sysext is now called "opendocs"
* The sysext is /not/ installed by default

I only have one +1 so far, please coredevs and especially devs, test the 
patch.

I have some questions:

* How is the translation handled (since the locallang file is now 
moved)? What do I have to do this to merge all the translations as well?

* How can we integrate this in the update wizard? I'd like to say "Doc 
Module is now removed and added as a new sysext", it also should install 
this sysext when updating to 4.2, or shouldn't it? I'll have to look 
into the update process function.

greetings,
benni.
-SDG-

www.xnos.de // www.xnos.org


Benjamin Mack wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> 
> this is something I really like to see go in 4.2. The initial idea came 
> from Jens Hoffmann, I really think it's useful and told Ingo yesterday 
> about it.
> I don't know if you all like it or not, since it moves some features 
> that were there forever from back in the days (pre 3.6 ;-)) and 
> therefore could break some backwards compatibility (If not, it's great 
> too :-)). I still hope that we can ship this with the 4-series that's 
> why I give it a try here...
> 
> So, what is Benni talking about?
> * I think that the "Doc" module on the right menu is used little and 
> that it should be included in the "User" module as a submodule since 
> it's the list of documents that the User opened before. (so, therefore 
> it gets renamed from "doc" to "user_doc").
> * Also, I want to make it a sysext in the same approach, so we have one 
> less thing in the "typo3/mod/" directory. Plus: it's easy to remove that 
> ext at some point (if somebody would feel we don't need it anymore).
> * Also, I think that the name "Doc." is totally unusable. Nobody knows 
> what is going on unless you click on it and figure it out for yourself. 
> That's why I think "Documents" or "Open Documents" would be way more 
> appropriate and understandable for people. Of course, we can change that 
> label.
> 
> OK, what do we have here?
> 
> a) "user_doc.png"
> a screenshot on how it looks like.
> 
> b) To try it out:
> "T3X_user_doc-0_0_1-z-200709182108" is the new extension adds the new 
> functionality as an ext. Also apply the patch 
> 20070918_mod_user_doc.patch, which basically removes the old (hard 
> coded) "doc" module and adds the new "user_doc" ext as default.
> 
> c) The whole pack (no binaries):
> "20070918_mod_user_doc_all.patch" does all the changes to your system, 
> although you need to provide the extension binary files "ext_icon.gif" 
> and "mod/document.gif" (they are the same) which you can get from 
> "typo3/mod/doc/document.gif".
> 
> Certainly there are a couple of lines where the "doc" is still hard 
> coded, just let me know if you know one and I'll fix it. Also, I don't 
> know if I made my approach right (still a "core newbie") with the 
> translation etc. Once, everything works and the new one is under version 
> control, I'll also remove the following files from SVN:
> 
> D      mod/doc
> D      mod/doc/document.gif
> D      mod/doc/clear.gif
> D      mod/doc/conf.php
> D      sysext/lang/locallang_mod_doc.xml
> 
> 
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