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

[Dmitrii Dimandt]

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

"It is human to err" :)


> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> 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.
>

True, true.

>
> >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?
> >
> >
> 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...

I just like to bicker :) On the whole I am more than satisfed with TYPO