[TYPO3-RTE] why does rtehtmlarea depend on TYPO3 4.0?!

[Stanislas Rolland]

Hi Ingo,
> 
> first of all: you do a great job with rtehtmlarea! But like always there's
> a downside.
> I fear that making the latest version (1.4.0) depend on TYPO3 4.0 is not
> that good certainly as rtehtmlarea is already used in a lot of 3.8.x
> installation which now can't upgrade to this version.
> 
Since version 1.3.0 (TYPO3 4.0 is shipped with version 1.3.7), there are 
a number of changes that rely on features and structural changes of the 
core that are available only in TYPO3 4.0. There are also many problems 
affecting the RTE that were fixed in the core of TYPO3 4.0.

> How about implementing a switch which automatically detects the TYPO3
> version and an/disables the 4.0 specific feature? I think that would be in
> the interest of many people (including me) and you would do them a great
> favour!
I agree that it would be nice if it was so simple. But the differences 
are now just too important. It is also very cumbersome to include in the 
extension fixes to problems in the core of earlier versions of TYPO3. 
Unfortunately, I cannot afford to support two branches. As mentioned in 
the documentation, version 1.2.0 is the last version that will work with 
3.8.x.

> As far as I got it the new features are centered around DAM browsers,
> aren't they? So it would be even cooler to detect whether DAM is installed,
> too.
> 
Even if you use TYPO3 4.0, the DAM media browser is an optional, 
configurable feature that will be ignored if DAM is not installed.

Best regards,
Stanislas