[TYPO3-v4] really drop global extesions?

Xavier Perseguers xavier at typo3.org
Thu Jan 12 15:50:31 CET 2012


Hi,

> Benjamin Mack wrote:
>> interesting, really didn't think that anybody would really use this
>> feature still...
> 
> Use case: customized core + set of always used extensions (like DAM, for
> example). We do that at Snowflake. Instead of getting needed extensions
> for every project, we have verified and stable versions of certain
> extensions in our pown version of the core. It all tested to work
> together. It is much better than install and hope that it will work
> without issues.
> 
> So global installation is helpful.

I agree but I would find it better if not put into typo3/ itself but in
a directory such as typo3conf/global_ext that could be symlink to
whichever location you want.

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