[TYPO3-dev] Deploy localconf.php from test to live system

[Nicolas de Haen]

Hi Sebastian,

> So beside activating and deactivating an extensions there
>> is not that much that would change after a move to the enviroment file.

That's right, as I mentioned before, the install Tool is not neccessary 
since it's just an interface for defining TYPO3_CONF_VARS. But 
installing an Extension without the Extension Manager is not so easy.

Currently we have a "custom_localconf.php" which is ignored by git and 
keeps the specific settings for database access, Sitename, etc. This 
file doesn't need any further change, once it is on it's place.

But the $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXT'] settings change more frequently, at 
least during development and since the Extension Manager overwrites 
these settings we cannot install one extension for "all" instances and 
another extension only in development environment.

With an inlude AFTER localconf.php we could do something like:

if($devMode){
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXT']['extList'] .= ',devlog,extbase_kickstarter';
}

So we have control what is same and what is different between 
Development, Staging and Live instance.

Nico