[TYPO3-extension-coordination] Quickstart and testsite packages for TYPO3 4.0

Jeff Segars jsegars at alumni.rice.edu
Tue Dec 20 16:16:58 CET 2005


Hey Kasper,

Things are good here...just getting ready for the Christmas holiday! 
Too bad you weren't in the States last weekend....Jason was looking for 
a partner on a hunting trip :)

>> I was the one who first raised quesitons about using the Import/Export
>> Wizard.  If it works, it will make life much easier but I think we'll
>> run into problems with extensions and with static files.
> 
> I would like to support the idea of finetuning the import/export format to be 
> capable of such things. I actually forwarded to Robert Lemke that the 
> Extension Manager should have a mode where some external application (like 
> the import-process) could 
> a) link to the EM with a request to install a list of extensions (possible in 
> specified versions?)
> b) a return URL when done
> 
> Thus the import-process could - as a step during import - take care of 
> extension dependencies; not by actually including the extensions in the 
> import file but by asking the EM to download and install them!
> 
> I think Robert accepted this and it will be a part of 4.0 because we actually 
> plan that testsite/quickstart etc. should be distributed like that with 4.0!

Sounds great!

>> The package that I mentioned earlier includes several TemplaVoila
>> templates, and we tried to export these for download to a standard TYPO3
>> install.  The backend records exported correctly, but we had a lot of
>> problems getting external files in fileadmin to be included properly.
>> It may have just been my lack of knowledge causing the problems, but I'm
>> guessing we'll run into similar issues with Quickstart and Testsite.
> 
> Correct usage of "soft references" should fix this problem. Are you aware of 
> those and how they work? I don't know of any bugs in them so if the soft 
> reference parsers don't pick up your file references correctly that might be 
> the cause of the problem.

I have worked with soft references a decent amount and I'm fairly 
familiar with the way they work.  It's been a couple months since I 
looked at this, but I believe we ran into issues on two fronts.

1)  The softref parser correctly found the HTML template, as well as the
CSS stylesheets and images embedded within the HTML template.  Where we
ran into problems was when the CSS stylesheet also included external
files, such as images and IE behaviors.  From looking at the code, it
doesn't appear that it was intended to recur through multiple levels
like this, and I'm sure there are good reasons for that.

Either way, I don't think this will affect Quickstart, Testsite, etc as 
we don't have to worry about this type of CSS styling.

2)  The more applicable problem we had showed up in the import process. 
Static files were picked up properly by the Import Wizard, but the
import process placed them in different paths than they were originally.

Again, this may not be as big of a deal given the way Quickstart,
Testsite, etc are structured but it was causing us problems with TV.

I'll go ahead and try an export of one of these packages today and see 
how things go.

Thanks,
Jeff



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