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

[Bastian Bringenberg]

Hey ho,

I am also NOT using this feature and I guess it is no more state of the art =).

Have a nice week together,

Bastian

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Am 08.12.2014 um 11:57 schrieb Stefan Padberg <post at bergische-webschmiede.de>:

> 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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