[TYPO3-dev] Extensions need update for 4.3!

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote: on 16.10.2008 16:51:

> 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?

I fear that we are slipping into a "forget about backwards
compatibility", if we start making exceptions here and there. We haven't
done that before, and I think that commitment to backwards compatibility
is one of the major attractions of TYPO3. It would be sad to loosen that
now.

Cheers,
Ernesto