[TYPO3-dev] Static tables missing countries

[Steffen Kamper]

Ries van Twisk schrieb:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Steffen Kamper wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ries van Twisk schrieb:
>>>
>>> If you ask somebody from 'Scotland'
>>> 'Where you from', I don't think he will say 'United Kingdom sir!'
>> or "from outer-ISO-land" :D
>>
>>> We have a case that we need to say Scotland, and not UK :)
>>>
>>> That said, I will create my own little countries table...
>>>
>>
>> why not add those manually to the static_countries?
>>
>> vg Steffen
> 
> 
> Because I am afraid that my changes will get overwritten with some 
> update of static_counties.
> I don't know the update procedure of that table really well,
> also transferring data from one to a other installation might be tricky.
> 
> Ries
> 
> 
> 

this can be avoided by
1) own extension that delivers an "update" class and look if records are 
present and add them if needed
2) mark extension as "not updatable" with
'state' => 'excludeFromUpdates'

vg Steffen