[TYPO3-dev] Modifying extensions

Patrick Gaumond gaumondpatrick-s-p-a-m at hotmail-sp-a-m.com
Mon Aug 11 17:12:48 CEST 2008


Steffen Kamper wrote:

> it's not seldom that an extension has to be modified for fitting client 
> needs. There is often no time or no budget to write XCLASS-extension or 
> an own one.
> 
> So IMHO it would be nice if EM warns about in "check for updates" that 
> this will overwrite the modifications, or marking extensions as 
> write-protected.

I like the "write-protected" flag idea.

The behavior could be as simple as when you receive an EM message that 
an extension is missing.

In a perfect world it would be managed in the EM with an additional 
field for comments: "This extension is write-protected because: [comment]"


Patrick-feature-creep




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