[FLOW3-general] Deactivate packages in certain contexts

[Bastian Waidelich]

Karsten Dambekalns wrote:

Hi Karsten,

> This generally makes sense, absolutely. We have to think about what
> possible uses cases might follow. One would be a different version of a
> library in a certain context - change packagePath and you're set - as
> discussed looong ago.

Right. Also we need to check if disabled packages are *really* not 
accessible (does the autoloader load classes from disabled packages?).
But those issues are the same as we currently have with "globally" 
disabled packages.


> I see another option in addition to your solution of adding the context
> inside PackageStates.php - and that would be to handle it like other
> settings - per context-directory files. Those could either be used
> instead of the global one or merged like Settings.yaml (the former is
> technically easier!).

Do you mean something like a Package.yaml?


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