Totally 110% agree.... I am working on a theme right now for the comp... and my progress has been stopped for at least a day everytime a new version is released.... Very frustrating... How is the competition going to be judged if some themes only work on certain releases??
Cheers Leevi Graham Micah Wylde wrote: > The 2.5.7 release brought the ability to theme anything in the system > and, in fact, to rewrite any piece of Typo that the designer desires > to. While this may be seen as a strength, and certaintly allows for > incredible flexiblity for the designer. The base lacks features that > you want? Roll them youself, as controllers are able to be > overwritten. There is also a huge danger here, which we have already > seen, namely that either development of Typo must cease, or else every > new version will, possibly majorly, break existing themes. We have > already seen this with the 2.6.0 release which broke themes designed > for 2.5.7. Since theme designers cannot be counted upon to be > constantly updating their themes, this situation will create a mess of > themes that only work with a specific version of typo, which will > force users to up or downgrade their installation every time they want > to install a new theme, which brings up a whole new set of problems. > And if the themer does fix their theme for a new version of typo, it > will break it for the old versions. > > This situation is untenable. What we need is a theme abstraction > layer, the interface to which will stay constant, at least amongst > major versions. Such a change would of course require huge changes to > the codebase. But if we want typo to continue to grow and flourish > with themes, it's a step that much be taken. > > -- > Micah Wylde > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005 >
