[TYPO3-hci] 4.5 vs 5.0

[Phillip]

> Sorry to appear again as a nay-sayer, but I don't get it what shall  
> (or
> couuld) really be done for 4.5. Drastic changes of the API  
> (developer HCI)
> are post-poned to 5.0, but any real change of the GUI (user HCI)  
> relies on
> that (eg MVC).
>
> The only idea how to ovcercome this is to introduce a new set of API
> (libraries) that are independent from t3lib and tslib. We could  
> evolve them
> step-by-step (starting perhaps with an intermediate 4.1, the  
> planned 4.5,
> rounding things up in another intermediate 4.6), so that in 5.0  
> t3lib is
> only a part of a legacy extension (typo3conf/ext/legacy/t3lib).
>
> The Core would bit by bit move on to the new API. Extensions can  
> make the
> transition when they are ready (and the needed parts of the new API  
> are
> stable).

100% my opinion. Right on. I wrote that in a more broader post, but  
it appears that you are using the technical terms to describe the  
exact same problem.

Phillip