[TYPO3-project-formidable] XML version check against installed version

[Adrian Föder]

Hi Jerome,

would it then be possible to omit one of the both minVersion and 
maxVersion tags?
I think one kind of version definition element should be mandatory to 
force the version check to work. That means the developer of an 
Formidable XML has to take care for what version his work is intended or 
at least to declare which version the XML is developed against.

With minVersion and maxVersion, you think about some kind of the 
ext_emconf's "constraints", right?


If the version check is implemented, it would be very nice to add an 
information at the XML reference 
(http://formidable.typo3.ug/reference.html) where is noted from what (or 
until, when obsolete) version the respective element works.

Best,

adrian


Jerome Schneider wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> That's a good idea, and you'll have such a feature in revision 2.0.319 
> and above.
> 
> one may now define /minVersion="X.XX.XXX" and /maxVersion="X.XX.XXX" on 
> the /formidable xml-tag
> if a condition is not met, Formidable displays a mayday screen
> 
> I think that it's better to use new tags than the /version one to avoid 
> future version-locking. So that if the XML has to be tied to a specific 
> range of Formidable version, he'll have the ability to do so, but by 
> default it will be executed anyway.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Jerome
> 
> Adrian Föder a écrit :
>> Hi there @all,
>>
>> I just ran into "indiscoverable non-functionality" when gambling with 
>> some examples from the web page.
>> The simple reason was: I didn't have the version installed that the 
>> example was made for. The required version stands in the root element 
>> "formidable", e.g.
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
>> <formidable version="2.0.296">
>>
>> </formidable>
>>
>> Wouldn't it be useful when the formidable engine throws a mayday or 
>> something like this when it discovers a version string newer then the 
>> installed one?
>>
>>
>> [AND: I'm, as you surely already noted, new to the project, so please 
>> excuse when there is a bugtracker available where such feature requests 
>> should better be posted or it has already been. The BT @ bugs.typo3.org 
>> has the project "formidable", but it seems a bit outdated and not really 
>> used...]
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much and
>> have a nice weekend!
>>
>> -adrian
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