It should not be a requirement to have STK installed to be able to use categorization.

Currently there are the following "dependencies"

• info.magnolia.module.categorization.commands.CategoryGeneratorCommand depends on MAGNOLIA-6042
• info.magnolia.module.categorization.functions.CategorizationTemplatingFunctions depends on MAGNOLIA-6042 + STKTemplatingFunctions
• info.magnolia.module.categorization.model.CategoryOverviewModel depends on STKPager
  • Use Pagination from MTE-2 instead
• info.magnolia.module.categorization.syndication.CategorySyndicator depends on MAGNOLIA-6042 + STKTemplatingFunctions

Other tasks

• Make former stk components (stkCategoryOverview, stkRelatedCategoriesLinkList) and stk page (stkCategoryOverview) available in this module
• init.inc.ftl from STK can't be used anymore
  • Create simplified version in this module
• Remove renderType=stk from existing components:
  • catCloud
  • catCloudWide
  • catCloudExtras
  • categoryRSSFeed
• Component template categoryOverview uses functions from STKTemplatingFunctions
  • ... stkfn.abbreviateString(item.abstract!, 100) ... (depends on MAGNOLIA-6052)
  • ... stkfn.getAssetLink(item, "teaserImg", "teaser") ... use DamTemplatingFunctions#getAssetLinkForId(String, String) instead (see: MGNLDAM-527)

Follow up

Above changes require follow-up changes in STK – in particular adding removed STK-components from this module to STK itself and ideally extending the ones from categorization.

Notes

This will break binary compatibility of some classes.