[TYPO3-v4] Extension Mangager Issues (reloaded)

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 24-9-2011 16:51, Helmut Hummel wrote:
> I was a bit surprised by the fact, that the old extension manager
> modules have been disabled for the latest beta release[1].

In the Minutes of the 16th meeting of the 4.6 Release Team there was 
this announcement:

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Extension Manager
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We want to deprecate the usage of the old Extension Manager to 
concentrate on the ExtJS-based one solely.

[ *TODO* Xavier ] Prepare a patch and push it to Gerrit

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In the Minutes of the 15h meeting of the 4.6 Release Team there was this 
announcement:

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Extension Manager
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Francois and Xavier worked on the "new" EM from Friday to Saturday 
(September, 9th - 10th). This code sprint was focused on getting rid of 
a few annoying bugs or UX oddities. The led to a few patches in Gerrit 
which got reviewed by other community members.

As announced in previous minutes (first time with "our very first 4.6 
meeting":http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v46-projects/wiki/2011-03-14_-_Minutes_from_the_1st_meeting), 
we aim at having only one Extension Manager. Currently, the (re-) 
activation of the legacy Extension Manager module is done by configuring 
the "em" extension itself.

* Olly suggested to move activation of old/new EM in user settings
* Benni suggested to move that to localconf.php instead

As we would like to have only one EM, we will come with a patch to move 
this setting to localconf.php and make the new EM the default, official, 
extension manager module to be used. This will allow us to further 
refactor it without having to worry about possible breaks introduced in 
legacy Extension Manager. This is a natural enhancement started by TYPO3 
4.5 LTS.

[ *TODO* Xavier ] Create a patch for the EM activation in localconf.php

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I am a bit surprised that you are surprised :-)

-- 
Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert.