[TYPO3-dev] What is the purpose of sysexts?

[Franz Holzinger]

Ries van Twisk a écrit :
> On May 19, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Steffen Kamper wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Niels Pardon schrieb:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> While following the threads about adding some extensions as sysexts in
>>> the core and dev newsgroups I asked myself what the purpose of those
>>> sysexts is.
>>>
>>
>> long post, short answer:
>>
>> Main purpose is that the maintainance of sys extension is done by the
>> core team. They will always use the latest API calls and should be a
>> good example of "how-to-do"
>>
>> vg Steffen
> 
> 
> I believe that once was said (on a typo3 core meeting on IRC)  a sysext 
> depends on a specific core version.
> 
> For example you cannot put css_styled_content on TER because the latest 
> version that is compatible with 4.2.0
> will properly not work on older versions of TYPO3. Same goes for DBAl 
> and other highly TYPO3 version depend extensions.
No, this is wrong. You can add a dependancy of TYPO3 4.2.0 to each 
extension. This is no reason to define an extension as a sysext.

I would favour to have a small TYPO3 Core. Also in the past many 
extensions have been removed from the Core for this reason.

- Franz