I am playing around with an idea for an CMS extension autoloader.
The goal is to create a single function capable of loading the classes for every extension for both the admin and site application.

Since we are at a very early stage with our project, and have only two components so far in our "site" application, maybe we can implement it and see how it works.

The required changes would be to register the common autoloader instead of the specific autoloader for com_tracker, change the lookup for the view- and model classes inside the tracker default controller (or even better, create a common default controller) and - to prefix all the classes with a Com.

The "magic" function can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/3936393

The logic to name the classes would be:

• ComFooModelBar to load
  • JROOT/components/com_foo/model/bar.php
• ComAdminFooModelBar to load
  • JROOT/administrator/components/com_foo/model/bar.php

Same for modules, plugins and templates.

Thoughts ¿