[TYPO3-dev] Extensions need update for 4.3!

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> If we now say in 4.5 method XY won't accept undefined vars anymore will
> give every site admin the clear idea that he will have more or less one
> year from now on to contract some developers to check his site for those
> kind of issues, so that he can nicely upgrade to 4.5 when time comes.
> That is enough backwards compatibility as we have defined several times
> now (in 2 major versions, we can delete deprecated stuff). In the past
> we haven't been that strict, which is why probably an upgrde from 3.7 to
> 4.3 still runs "smoothly", but I think we could. See my proposal for how
> this should be handled on the other thread. :)

We already said that extensions will break. We did it long before 4.3 is released, so people have enough time to test their extensions. What's the problem? Who will need more than a year to test such things?

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