[TYPO3-dev] idea about shared cache_extensions db

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi!

>> There might also be some tie-in with the caching work that Dmitry, 
>> Ingo, and Olly did as part of Hacktontest.
> 
> Yes, this should be possible. Since we have many caching backends 
> available there, we can even store the information on the file system. 
> It does not have to be in the database really. It is not queried that 
> often. Once we have it in the new caching system, there could by an 
> extension with a CLI script to update the database from a cron job.
> 
> What do you think?

+1 for the centralized file caching backend
+1 for the CLI script

This would allow me to always get an up-to-date list of extensions

:-)

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Xavier Perseguers
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