TYPO3 autoload of external classes

Question

I like to use autoload in TYPO3 6.0< for external classes e.g. Symfony\Component\Yaml.

Is there an easier way to create an autoload than ext_autoload.php? The library I what to use have very much classes to define if using ext_autoload.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

AFAIK not. This functionality will be available once the package manager API is merged. Then you can just require this as a full package.

Currently, I would include the autoloader of the package (if it has one) into the ext_localconf.php.

You can use extdevel to create the ext_autoload.php automatically, but I am not sure if it will create it right.