-- Chris Toomey <[email protected]> wrote (on Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 05:22 PM -0700): > Have you guys published or are you planning to publish a "porting guide" for > porting ZF1 MVC apps to ZF2? That'd be really helpful. There could be > multiple pieces to it, e.g., how to do a minimal-effort port (but > sacrificing the benefits of using ZF2 as it's meant to be used) and how to > do a more complete redesign that produces a first-class ZF2 application.
As the MVC's initial rewrite has only just been completed, we're still a ways out on this one. That said, there are some POCs and ideas floating around as to how we'll address it. * We'll likely put the ZF1-style MVC into a module that users can then add to their application, and immediately get moving. There _will_ be some changes necessary for this to work (the plugin systems work quite differently under the hood right now, for instance), but changes could be documented clearly and concisely. This module, however, would receive no new features or maintenance (other than critical bugfixes). * I've built a proof-of-concept ZF1 emulation layer on top of the ZF2 MVC already. It's not completely robust, but it demonstrates that it can be done. The benefit to this is that it makes migration slightly easier -- you're using the ZF2 MVC under the hood, so you can start taking advantage of some of the features. As we finalize the MVC layer, including the view and layout systems, we can tackle this fully. For now, however, we need to focus on getting these APIs finalized so that the migration layer and/or documentation isn't a moving target. > Also, what are your support (bug fixes, security patches, etc.) plans for > ZF1 once ZF2 is released out of beta? We will be releasing a 1.12 version in the near future. This will be the last minor release for the 1.X series. As such, it will only get critical bugfixes and security fixes. We have not yet determined how long we will maintain it. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | [email protected] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- List: [email protected] Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives Unsubscribe: [email protected]
