TYPO3 Core

The idea is good but the solution is quite complex.

Currently an extension (including the sysext's) have the possibility to add themselves "before" or "after" some other existing module or as "top" (start). Default is "at the end".

Trouble starts when one adds itself "after/before" some module which is not even installed anymore. E.g. uninstalling "Info" sysext will drop the "info" module, which is currently being used by Workspaces "before:info", so the result is Workspaces being placed at the end. Ugly, I confess, but a result of our "new flexibility".

Hardcoding the order of the sysext seems "brutal"; but might be the only solution. Maybe having some sort of "order" parameter (like the new context menu) would help.

Some more information:

Old hardcoded (4.4) modules were:

$TBE_MODULES = array(
'web' => 'list,info,perm,func',
'file' => 'list',
'user' => 'ws',
'tools' => 'em',
'help' => 'about,cshmanual'
);

- "layout" module was added with "top" (EXT:cms)
- "view" module was added with "after:layout" (EXT:viewpage)

Which then created the ordering we all know:

layout,view,list,info,perm,func,workspaces

Ideas how to acchieve that?

What about a second order param like a number? And if you want to have sysext's as the first extensions to appear prepend an integer 1 to any non-system-extension. So that you can be sure to have a predefined order.

Like
web -> 10
file -> 20
user -> 30
powermail -> 10 (but becomes 110 as "1" will be prepended and
order/position is like desired)
templavoila -> 10 (same as above - but also with alphabetical order and p is before t)

and so on...

This could be written to a cache or serialized andwritten to a config file till any new extensions will be installed. (For perfomance reasons.)

Maybe you need to drop the current sorting for 4.6? As two sorting algorithms will be confusing?! Then you should add a default sorting param to any new extension p.e. 50 or so.

What do you think about that? To difficult?

The sorting issue is still appearing in the current 4.7 T3 version.