[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 7 dependency in extensions

[Stefan Padberg]

+1
Stefan

Am 20.01.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Charles Brunet:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the insightful discussion. I realize that the answer is not
> fully determined yet.
>
> May I add my point of view? As a minor extension developer, it is difficult
> for me to test my extensions against every supported versions of TYPO3 (and
> PHP...). I know the best practice would be to implement unit and functional
> tests. I know I could use Travis, as the news extension does. But all of
> this is a lot of work for a minor extension developer like me, who does it
> more like a hobby than like a real work. Therefore, when I set the typo3
> dependency on my extensions, I do my best, but a little blindly, because I
> don't know by heart which API functions are (or not) in which TYPO3 version.
>
> What I would suggest would be to be as lax as possible in the dependency
> settings of extensions, but also to add something in the web interface of
> TER to allow people to confirm if this version of the extension is
> compatible or not with a specific version of TYPO3, like a pool. Then, we
> could see something that show if people marked the extension as compatible
> or not with each TYPO3 version. If I remember, I think this is what
> Wordpress does.
>
> I also second the suggestion of bernd wilke to be able to filter out
> extensions by TYPO3 version dependencies. I would be great also if the
> extension manager was able to download only the list of compatible
> extensions (because right now, the MySQL table for the list of extensions
> uses 25 MB on each TYPO3 website I have on my server).
>
> Just my 2¢
>
>
>
> *Charles Brunet, B. Ing.*
> Webmestre.
> Étudiant au doctorat, génie électrique, Université Laval.
>


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