[TYPO3-dev] Merge Extensions

[Widmann, Manfred]

"Martin Kutschker" <martin.kutschker-n0spam at no5pam-blackbox.net> schrieb im 
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> Widmann, Manfred schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've got a rather difficult problem, maybe one of you guys can help me:
>>
>> ws_banner is an old extension by Luke Chiam who tranferred it to me as he 
>> isn't interested in TYPO3 things anymore. At this time I didn't want to 
>> touch ws_banner more than necessary and therefore extended it with 
>> wm_wsbannerplus (2 new columns in table tx_wsbanner_banner, one 
>> additional plugin).
>>
>> For different reasons I want to merge the two extensions and maintain and 
>> ectend them under the name wm_wsbannerplus. I' really good on the way and 
>> everythin works fine even if I deinstall ws_banner but i'm afraid that 
>> deletion of ws_banner will not work because:
>> a) wm_wsbannerplus 2.0.0 uses uploads/ws_banner (all the images are 
>> stored there)
>> b) data are still sored in tx_wsbanner_banner
>
> You could leave the stuff there. It's not 100% clean because of the 
> misnamings but technically ok.
>
>> Shure, nor problem to change that manually but it would be more than nice 
>> (also for the guys who are using ws_banner / wm_wsbannerplus) when this 
>> would be done "automatically" during installation. And this should be 
>> true for first time installations too ...
>>
>> Any suggestions what to do?
>
> Use the upgrade hook of the EM.
>
> I don't know the exact specs, but if your ext. has a class.ext_update.php 
> it will be available as UPDATE in the EM drop down of the ext. See for an 
> example class.ext_update.php.
>
> If you're really moving stuff arouond, why don't you make a new extension 
> wm_banner and mark both extensions as obsolete. Then the renamimg of the 
> tables would at least make some sense the the users of wm_wsbannerplus.
>
> Masi
Thanks a lot, Masi! I'll try that!
Manfred