Scott Laird wrote:
> I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, Typo's pretty clearly
> over-complex, at least in some areas.  On the other hand, most of the
> really painful complexity in Typo has to do with plugin frameworks
>   

Well, that's always the way. Just today I was modifying another CMS at 
work, and realized just how tiny and simple it was compared to the 
behemoth I had borrowed a lot of the code from. The secret, of course, 
is that the new tiny system only had to please me, wheres the behemoth 
was built to be configurable to the ever-changing whims of a wider user 
population.

I do feel, though, that you should either stabilize and document the 
plugin frameworks, or rip them out. At the moment, nobody uses them 
because it's an undocumented moving target, but you have all that 
complexity there anyway. I say either lose the complexity, or document 
and stabilize it so people will use it and you'll get some actual 
benefit from having it there.

> The whole text filter and
> sidebar frameworks need to be rewritten to use Rails's native plugin
> support.

Oh. *sigh*.


mathew
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