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

[Matthias Nagl]

I understand that "obsolete" is reserved for extensions that won't work with 
recent T3 versions at all.

However at least the extension descriptions of both lib and div should be 
extended to contain a note that it is not a good idea to use them for new 
projects.

I added notes to the wiki pages which initially attracted my attention and 
removed some really outdated phrases (upcoming method to create extensions, 
easy porting to T3V5...)

- Matthias


Am Donnerstag 15 September 2011, 12:57:14 schrieb 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