[TYPO3-dev] extension key

[Steffen Kamper]

"Elmar Hinz" <elmar.DOT.hinz at team.MINUS.red.DOT.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1169798909.4631.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>
>> Well, yes that's my opinion too. But if lib/dev uses smarty directly it
>> should set the dependency.
>>
>> Masi
>
> Hi,
>
> if lib/div would set a dependency to all extensions it defines an
> interface for, it could set dependencies up to 10% of TER on the long run.
> I don't think the user would be happy with that. So it's better to set
> optional combinations within the extensions that depend on the
> combinations as long as the order of the instalation of lib/div and
> libraryX is of no functional importance.
>
> Regards
>
> Elmar
>

Yes, that's the idea. May be there are following other interfaces. So if 
anyone wants to use the interface to smarty, it only works, when smarty is 
available, the interface looks for and will display the missing 
smarty-ext-Message.

vg  Steffen