[Typo3-dev] Hey system extensions! Come back to the extension repository!!

[Robert Lemke]

Hi folks,

Michael Stucki wrote:

> I do not see any reasons for downloading system extensions from TER:

I agree with that.

> - People think they can install the 3.8 version on their 3.7 installation

That won't be possible in the future because the required TYPO3 version is
checked.

> - Someone has to keep it up to date with the current core version

Which we have to do anyway: We have to upload the documentation!

> The only drawback: The manual is not visible. Luckily there are some ways
> to solve this:
> 
> - Did anybody notice that Robert released the extension
> rlmp_extensiondocs? - Alternatively, I vote for Ingos suggestion to add a
> static list of system
>   extensions to the repository to make sure that the manual is there but
>   you cannot download them. This way, no database change would be needed.
>   This might be realistic to implement because the manual does not change
>   as often as the code does...

That would be an easy solution, true. 

Just to make it even more complicated: In earlier versions indexed search
was not a system extension, now it is. If we hide indexed search from the
repository, nobody with TYPO3 3.6.0 can download indexed search ...

Ideas?

robert

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Robert Lemke
TYPO3 Association - Research & Development
Member of the board
http://association.typo3.org