[TYPO3-dev] The extbase dilemma

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

>> Who marked it "stable" then?
>
> The owners of extbase back then ...

Because back then the Core team decided (IIRC) that system extensions 
should all be stable to be distributed along with Core.

At that point of time it was considered stable enough to be used. The 
main problem I see is not really backward compatibility (even if I agree 
this should be the case to most extent with stable versions and use 
deprecation if not possible) but much more than bugs announced for 
version X (1.0 for instance) started to be tackled with with e.g., 
version 1.1 and perhaps only got committed with 1.2 but not to older 
versions meaning you always have to run the latest version of Extbase 
(and thus TYPO3) to have a chance to get a "stable" version of the 
framework you use for your extensions.

Hopefully this should have changed with the release of TYPO3 4.5 LTS and 
patches should be backported to this version too.

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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