[TYPO3-english] 6.2 LTS - Extension manager - modifiedextensions

[Jan Kornblum]

Hi Markus & Ralf-Rene,

thanks a lot for your explanations.

>> I think i don't get it at the moment or i misunderstand it: The comments are
>> all about checksums locally or on ter etc.
>> 
>> Will this issue bring the old EM feature "extension has been modified"
>> back? Just for beeing sure to watch the right issue ;)
> Yes, it is about exactly this feature. In order to detect whether files have 
> been modified you need a checksum. So the point here is, where're these 
> checksums calculated? For TER extensions this can be done within the TER on 
> extension upload.
>
>> 
>> Will this also cover the following: An non-ter extension is installed 
>> locally. Any time later some of the extensions files get modified. Now the 
>> extension is marked red in EM, saying "some extension files have been 
>> modified...". No comparison against ter version and so on...
> For local only extensions there needs to be a developer tool that does this 
> calculation locally.

Please correct me if i'm wrong: In 4.5 EM there was an option to 
"update the ext_emconf.php" file - or simliar. Isn't that exactly that 
was is need for local non-ter extensions?

Kind regards, Jan