[TYPO3-ect] New roadmap lib/div/cool

[Elmar Hinz]

Hello Michael,

that is good news. Having a proof of concept and this nice article is
already half the way. With this knowledge people can already start to
develop extensions with propel.

Are this relations right?

generator way <-> generic way 
normal ORM    <-> active records
torque        <-> hibernate   
propel        <-> ???
symfony       <-> cakePHP

> 1) Transform TCA structure into XML
> 2) Adapt ORMs to use TCA

> So my proposal would be the following: We could use Propel and first of
> all Propels interfaces for implementing extensions with lib/div. After
> some testing, we'll see, whether Propel does the job well and could
> implement our own ORM with the Propel interfaces, so that no change in
> the extensions is required - or at least only a little change. Thereby
> we could implement the ORM piece by piece and could replace Propel bit
> by bit.

My proposals:

1.) Pimp your current doc and put it into a documentation extension: 

http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/

We should also think about something like: http://ect.typo3.org, to
communicate ECT results and extensions.

2.) Making a tca2xml converter for propel configuration. 

3.) Making lib/div interface. 

I think we shoul use Propel unaltered, without a piece by piece replacemet.
All modifications of external tools are quickly outdated upon updates.

Regards

Elmar