[TYPO3-dev] Poll: Should we keep supporting "global extensions"?

[Stefan Padberg]

No, I am not using the global extensions feature.
Stefan

Am 08.12.2014 um 11:21 schrieb Benjamin Mack:
> Hey everybody,
>
> today I need your opinion, so please be so kind to hit reply with a
> quick response.
>
> As for the introduction:
>
> TYPO3 features the functionality of "system extensions" (located under
> "typo3/sysext/") - extensions that come with the Core. Then, there are
> "global" extensions, which can be put under "typo3/ext/". This is useful
> if you have a third-party-extension that you want to distribute to
> multiple installations (like e.g. tt_news back then in 3.6) that *you*
> download and install there. This feature is really only helpful if you
> have 1 TYPO3 source, that multiple installations are using, but comes
> with the price that you need to copy all your global extensions when
> updating TYPO3 from 4.5.12 to 4.5.13.
> Then you have the "local" extensions under "typo3conf/ext/", - your
> installation-specific extensions, which I guess, all of you are using.
>
> We are currently think of dropping the "global" extension concept which
> we think (but don't know for sure) is rarely used since ages, and also
> pretty much unmaintained, as we consider this feature with all the
> composer-bells-and-whistles today not useful for keeping.
>
> So as a roundup:
>
>   * System extensions: typo3/sysext/
>   * Your global extensions: typo3/ext/
>   * Your local extensions: typo3conf/ext/
>
> What I would like to know is simple:
>
>    Are you using the "global extension" feature currently?
>
> All of you with Gerrit access, feel free to vote the pending patch as well:
>
>    https://review.typo3.org/#/c/34552/
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> All the best,
> Benni
>


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