[TYPO3-dev] New version scheme for system extensions

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Am 16.12.2011 15:45, schrieb Patrick Lobacher:
> Georg Ringer schrieb:
>> Am 16.12.2011 13:40, schrieb Patrick Lobacher:
>>> But how will you distinguish Extbase 1.4 and Extbase 1.3 for example?
>>
>> by telling the TYPO3 version
>
> Means - that "Extbase 4.6.2" is the version number of the current shiped
> extension? Or 1.4 (and this is the same for 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and so
> on) oder just 1.0.0 as you suggest? Or the version of "Extbase which is
> shipped with TYPO3 4.6.2". Or should we drop the version numbers
> completely and say "Extbase" to a bunch of different versions? As this
> examples shows, in my opinion we need a clear rule anyway...
>
> If we document a sysext in manuals, books, articles how can we reference
> to this? We need a clear name - like "sysext (TYPO3 4.6.2)" or (better
> in my opinion) "sysext 4.6.2" and we have to distinguish different
> version as they could have different content (new feature, bug fixed, ...).
>
> The situation today is, that we have these version numbers and some are
> called like the TYPO3 version and some not - so I think we should
> consolidate this in one direction.
>
>>
>>> You are forced to use TYPO3 4.5 LTS in some cases but you can use
>>> Extbase 1.4 with it if you want without problems. If you have just 1.0.0
>>> the chaos would be perfect in my opinion.
>>
>> this would be the 1st time that there is an official opinion that you
>> can switch sysexts versions and core versions. Users have *never* been
>> accourged and this is also the reason for sysexts not being in TER
>> because they are shipped with TYPO3 itself and they will probably work
>> *only* in the version they belong.
>
> No, this is no official statement at all - I personally just do not want
> to use a sysext which has bugs or less features with the LTS if there
> are a fixed versions out there and I know, that they will work
> perfectly. But - of course - no other people should encouraged to do
> this...

That would be strange, since Extbase shipped with TYPO3 4.6 uses caching 
framework API which is not available in 4.5, isn't it? I have tried to 
use newer Extbase in 4.5, but was unable to.

Cheers,
Ernesto