[TYPO3-ect] My first impression of lib/div

[Daniel Bruessler]

Hello Benjamin,

the development of lib/div has stuck in alpha-state. The only support 
you can get are the manuals in the wiki - e.g. 
http://wiki.typo3.org/Apples and http://wiki.typo3.org/Bananas

The MVC-component of FLOW3 will be available for version 4 also, but not 
yet.

So download the SVN-version of lib/div, and if you find problems then 
correct it there. See http://wiki.typo3.org/Subversion

Cheers!
Daniel

> Hey guys,
> 
> I dug into lib / div the other day for the first time. I actually wanted 
> to use the set in my own extension.
> 
> As I looked at the source code for div, I was wondering why there are 
> functions duplicated from the core.
> 
> I mean, I usually call t3lib_div::makeInstance, now I need to call 
> tx_div::makeInstance and I don't see the reason why NOT to use the 
> classic t3lib_div ones (getGlobal etc etc). Same goes for some "key" 
> functions, which belong to the t3lib_extMgm class. Shouldn't we find 
> another way to have an extension for the stable releases 4x to merge 
> missing functions to the core?
> 
> Second of all, shouldn't we now force all developers to work with PHP5 ? 
> I mean, the admins (me included, I have two clients left with PHP4) now 
> need to upgrade to a new system, PHP4 is not supported anymore... so 
> let's get rid of it.
> 
> Third: Is the lib / div way the "official" way to making an extension to 
> TYPO3 5.0? I mean: Is it developed in discussion the v5 team or "just 
> another MVC framework" for TYPO3 ?
> 
> Forth: Is it finished? doesn't seem to be a lot of work going on there 
> anymore.
> 
> Thanks for all the answers.
> benni.
> -SDG-