[TYPO3-dev] Extensions need update for 4.3!

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi all,

>>> There are some changes that are of course not backwards compatible,
>>> which will break extensions and which we did in the past (upgrade to
>>> PHP5, change of paths and symlinks), but in most case there was a good
>>> reason to do so, breaking the one or other existing extensions. In my
>>> eyes this is not a good reason.
> 
>> Broken extension can be easily fixed by changing null to a proper
>> argument. Why are you resisting it? Why does it look good to you to pass
>> wrong arguments to functions?
> 
> Well, NULL wasn't wrong until probably 4.3, those extensions were not
> "broken" before, which is why I don't think they should "brake" after
> the 4.3 upgrade.

I think there is a solution for all of us... allowing NULL to be passed 
in 4.3 but somehow declare this deprecated, which would then 
"officially" let us remove this behaviour in AFAIK 4.5.

What do you think of that?

Cheers

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en