[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 4.2 Alpha 1

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Dmitry,

"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1189585945.19319.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi!
>
> JoH asenau wrote:
>> The problem might not be the distribution but the current environment, 
>> which
>> is setup to run TYPO3 versions before 4.2.
>> If you are running PHP as apache module (which is true for many hosters 
>> as
>> well) you can decide if you want PHP4 _OR_ PHP5 but can't have both of 
>> them.
>> A first check after switching to PHP5 just showed that there are several
>> extensions that simply refuse to work with PHP5 (even extdeveval doesn't
>> work anymore due to a redeclared $this!). Since I have to make sure that 
>> the
>> current TYPO3 installs hosted on my live server still run smoothly with
>> TYPO3 versions <= 4.1.2, I unfortunately had to switch back to PHP4 
>> again,
>> which means: Can't test TYPO3 4.2 so far and additionally means: Can't 
>> check
>> out the new IRRE features which might have been an additional boost for 
>> the
>> upcoming ICE pack.
>
> I use extdeveval ok with PHP 5.2.1 on Windows. But I use only 
> documentation formatting. If something does not work there, have you 
> reported it as a bug?

me too - but i heard of the problem from others, so there might be something 
in. I will search for that and report it to BT if i match it.
Is it maintained by core-team?

vg  Steffen

>
>> IMHO it's a "no go", if you have to upgrade your whole system just to 
>> update
>> to a new TYPO3 version while the current versions of many extensions 
>> won't
>> run on this upgraded system yet and this might put even more people on a
>> track leading away from TYPO3.
>
> You are saying "many extensions" but you did not give any particular name 
> except for extdeveval, which is not for production server. Unless you say 
> what exactly does not work, this statement either useless, or considered 
> as false :(
>
> -- 
> Dmitry Dulepov
> TYPO3 freelancer / TYPO3 core team member
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