[Typo3] Zap the Gremlins - report them!!!!

[Ries van Twisk]

>I do. Some don't. I once misplaced my dummy tarball and couldn't find
>it (I may have deleted it accidentally).
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Happens to me aswell :) but well.....

>>>Besides, imagine someone uploads a new version of a non-system
>>>extension (say, macina_banners) that is incompatible with a previous
>>>version. Or is otherwise unstable. We are left at the mercy of the
>>>developer to provide a stable version since there is no way to access
>>>previous versions of the extension.
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>>It's about system_extentions, these are removed.
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>>macina_banners for example as a system created by one of our extention contributors.
>>it's actually his responsibly to keeps his extention compatible...to some extend ofcourse.
>>So this extention will always be found in TER, and the developers can keep older
>>versions in there aswell which you can download.
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>Could you tell me how to find a previous version of an extension in
>the TER? You can't. And I don't think it's a developer's choice to
>keep or not to keep an older extension. The TER should be more like
>SF's download page (see TYPO's own
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20391&package_id=14557)
>where I can choose what version to download.
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TER on the web doesn't show that, I fully agree that that is a big minus 
on TER I would say.
But a extention developers can leave older extentions on there or delete 
them, that's his choice
If you go to your typo3 backend and download extentions from there then 
typo3 will
ask you what version you want to download It's a tiny small dropdown on 
the upper left corner.
But ONLY if the developer leaves old extentions there ofcourse...
So yes it is possible, but it will not help all people because some 
cannot download
extentions in BE cauze there ISP restricts that functionality.

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>BTW, back to system extensions. Are they never ever going to be
>patched or upgraded until the next version of TYPO comes out? If they
>are, how in the world are we going to access them? By downloading an
>extra 30 megs of TYPO 3.8.1, 3.8.2 etc?
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I did had a small discussion about that on typo3-dev and unfortunatly 
they made that dissission to
do it like that.
For me and properly you it feels like the M$ way of patching, isn't it?
Just download the whole 'OS' again to fix small issues...
But we have to deal with it.... remember it's still free and quite a lot 
of people using typo3
make business out of free software...

Ries