[TYPO3-dev] Extensions need update for 4.3!

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> With the publication of 4.3 it should announce: "this is the newly 
> improved version of TYPO3 with 100+ new features and bugfixes. And by 
> the way, we also managed to render a few thousand of the extensions 
> useless..."

If I remember correctly, there are nearly than 3 thousand extensions. If we have "several thousand" extensions broken due to this, I will be severely disappointed by such coding :D

> Indeed, this action reminds me a bit of the sudden change in the 
> C-library which is used for PHP functions like mktime(). In the 
> documentation was the subtile statement that the Unix timestamp for 
> dates before January 1st, 1970 were undefined. For years the function 
> created negative timestamps, which were widely used. All of a sudden a 
> developer decided to follow the documentation a bit stricter and the 
> next version of that library did indeed produce an "undefined" result...
> A very expensive change it was...

Well, it is a good case. Those, who used undocumented functionality, paid. This is how it often works. People usually do not risk it in normal life (who would risk putting 100V device into 220V and hope it will work?) but they do it in programming. This is why so many programs have very low quality. Programmers act very irresponsibly sometimes.

-- 
Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
My TYPO3 book: http://www.packtpub.com/typo3-extension-development/book
In the blog: http://typo3bloke.net/post-details/duplicate_content_with_realurl/