TYPO3 Core

There are many path related methods in the core that are named almost the same. Sometimes they are functionally identical and sometimes they are not. All path related methods should be moved to \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\PathUtility and the other methods should be deprecated.

For getting an absolute path:

• \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\Driver\LocalDriver::getAbsolutePath()
• \TYPO3\CMS\Extensionmanager\Utility\FileHandlingUtility::getAbsolutePath()

For getting a relative path:

• \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Module\ModuleLoader::getRelativePath()
• \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\PathUtility::getRelativePath()
• \TYPO3\CMS\Extensionmanager\Utility\FileHandlingUtility::getRelativePath()
• \TYPO3\CMS\Install\FolderStructure\AbstractNode::getRelativePathBelowSiteRoot()

For checking is something is an absolute path:

• \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::isAbsPath()
• \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\PathUtility::isAbsolutePath()

We can grep out a list of method declarations in the core (excluding Tests, contrib, etc.), and then check this list for any duplicate method implementations.

I'll cook a patch for the path methods.