[TYPO3-project-4-3] TYPO3 Distribution Concept for 4.3

[Marcus Krause]

Franz Koch schrieb am 05/11/2009 11:26 AM Uhr:
> Hi,
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> Here're my ideas about a "distribution concept":
>>
>> * strip down the core even more than now
>> * then have different "distributions" for
>>     * a blog
>>     * a community
>>     * corporate site (with DAM f.e.)
>>     * news portal
>>     * ... other popular combinations of the core + some extensions
>>
>> To create these packages in an easy and automated way (in fact I can't
>> really imagine a non-automated way) we would have to build a new
>> packaging system.
> 
> [...]
> This concept would also be much wiser if you think about security issues
> etc. If a security leak is found in a bundled extension, simply update
> the required version of the extension to the one of the security-fix and
> you're done - no repacking etc.
> [...]

Good point - security. As you know, we regularly find security issues in
widely spread extensions. If you feel you could manage re-bundling them
in such cases, then I'm fine with it. Otherwise think about a better
approach.


Marcus.