[TYPO3-ect] Announcing TER cleanup process
Michael
typo3ml at schams.net
Sun Mar 10 11:13:59 CET 2013
On 10/03/13 20:29, Franz Holzinger wrote:
[...]
>> I think the current plans have the same impact, but are a bit less
>> destructive. What do you think?
>
> 1. E.g. if you search for an extension and include also the outdated
> extensions, then you will get a very long list. [...]
Then, leave the default settings (which *exclude* outdated extensions)
and you will get a short(er) list :-)
> 2. Many old extensions cause collisions with other extensions or even
> with TYPO3. [...]
This is why the TER clean up initiative introduces the TYPO3 core
version dependency as a mandatory setting.
http://typo3.org/news/article/announcing-ter-cleanup-process/
> E.g. they have been written for tt_products 1.2.7 from the year 2003 and will
> not work together with any never version since 2004. And they will never
> work in TYPO3 3.8.x or higher. [...]
In this case, these extensions will not have a TYPO3 dependency to a
current TYPO3 version and are automatically classified as "outdated",
which means, Integrators will not find them in the Extension Manager
(with the default settings) anyway. So, they can not install them
accidentally (you have to enforce it, if you really want it).
The discussions around this initiative started more than a year ago and
after weighing the pros and cons, we have come to the conclusion that
classifying and filtering unmaintained extensions is better than
removing them.
http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-team-extension-coordination/2012-January/003933.html
Cheers
Michael
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