[TYPO3-ect] Please flag lib/div as obsolete!

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 15-9-2011 9:37, Matthias Nagl wrote:
> After spending several days reading the lib/div documentation and examples
> because I thought it was the current state-of-the-art method for extension
> development I realized that it is basically unmaintained and deprecated.

lib and div are used by a number of other extensions (which are still 
maintained). lib and div are "only" extensions just like any other 
extension in TER and never advertised as a new way for extension 
development.
There are also a few other extensions which provide extra tools and 
libraries for developers, but they are also not maintained by the core 
team nor were they ever endorsed, advised or something like that.

> To save other users/developers this useless waste of time I would like to ask
> you to tag both extensions as "obsolete".

That is something that the owner of the extension keys has to do. But 
since a number of maintained extensions depend on them I think it is 
very unlikely that this will happen.

> For new extension developers the current state of extensively available
> lib/div documentation and little / well hidden extbase documentation is quite
> confusing and drives most attention towards lib/div.

Extbase and Fluid are system extensions and as such part of the TYPO3 
core. Each TYPO3 installation contains these system extensions (even if 
they are not installed by default).
Extbase is very much in development (it is a backport of a lot of the 
functionality of FLOW3, which is recently available as beta), so 
documentation is also in development.
There is a German book available [1] and this book is being translated 
by the community into English [2].
There are lots of resources [3] and a lively mailing list / newsgroup [4].

[1] http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/typo3extger/index.html
[2] http://news.typo3.org/news/article/extbasefluid-book-in-english/
[3] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-mvc/wiki
[4] http://lists.typo3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-project-typo3v4mvc

-- 
Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert.