[TYPO3-dev] Your Input On: 6.x Extension Manager

[Thomas Nussbaumer]

Hi François


 > Moving this to extdeveval has been discussed already before, but nobody
 > is taking care of it yet. I'm fine with the idea but it should be
 > tackled soon IMO, so that you don't need to launch another version of
 > TYPO3 just to upload your extension.

I'm dealing with Extbase and Fluid. Possess little knowledge about the 
core. But I think that it should not be hard to port the TER upload to 
extdeveval for 6.0.

Cheers

Am 09.02.2013 17:48, schrieb François Suter:
> Hi Benni,
>
>> as most of you (hopefully :)) played around with the new extension
>> manager in 6.0, you might have noticed that it has a different feel to
>> it: It is more focused on actually downloading and installing extensions
>> instead of doing everything else that has been in that place for the
>> last years:
>
> At first I was rather upset by the new EM, but I'm now used to it and
> quite enjoy it.
>
>>   * Uploading extensions
>>   * Cleanup ext_emconf.php
>
> Moving this to extdeveval has been discussed already before, but nobody
> is taking care of it yet. I'm fine with the idea but it should be
> tackled soon IMO, so that you don't need to launch another version of
> TYPO3 just to upload your extension.
>
>>   * Updating language files
>
> Is in a separate module now and seems fine.
>
>>   * Developer information about an extension
>
> With older EMs we could see such information about installed extensions.
> I never found this really useful. However with the new EM installing
> extensions silently, I would support having some kind of preview: some
> screen/dialog window could tell you about database modifications and
> warn you about configuration options, for example. I find it too silent
> in its current state (I would even backport that to 6.0).
>
>>   * Creating a new extension (kickstarter)
>
> Extension "kickstarter" should be modified to be a stand-alone module.
> The new extension builder is already that way. Ideally any effort should
> really rather be targeted at the extension builder to add what might be
> missing there, rather than continue maintaining the old kickstarter,
> which will require always more care in the future (like adding
> generation for namespaced plugins, for example, which would be quite an
> effort).
>
>>   * List of updated extensions
>
> You can already see what extensions can be updated. Do you mean
> something else?
>
> Cheers
>