[TYPO3-dev] Too much changes?

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello Tapio,

> Hi
> 
> I have written about athmosphere, where people think
> that there is too much changes.
> My e-mail frend Greg has also complained that.
> If existing plugins, existing templates, existing templates systems
> don't work or
> updating cause very much work, then Typo3 gets soon athmosphere,
> where many people sk themselves, it it is reasonable to use Typo3 a
> all - is it in general too unstable CMS.
> Reasonble backward compatibility is importan in order to avoid this
> kind of athmosphere.

100 % backward compatibility isn't possible. TYPO3 is also relying on PHP 
and MySQL. They changes to, and aren't 100 % backwards compatible themselves. 
If TYPO3 has to change it's core to work flawless with PHP 5, it may give 
changes who make it necessary also to change extensions, or makes older extensions 
don't work as they should with the new version (and vice versa).

Else, i did the same as Ries, but on a smaller site (only 400 pages) and 
it was done really fast. It's a site who first was made with version 3.6, 
and upgraded the whole path. Without problems.

And sometimes you also have to make choices, because near 100 % backwards 
compatibility may "bloat" the code, and make it near impossible to maintain 
in the future.

And an upgrade of Vignette isn't any easy jobb (it may take days).

WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no