[TYPO3-core] showpic.php obsolete now...

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Dmitry,

>Kasper Sk?rh?j wrote:
>  
>
>>This  
>>change means that "showpic.php" is not needed as a symlink anymore,  
>>neither as a script in the core root!
>>
>>What it means is: Remove the showpic.php script from your siteroots!  
>>Yet another improvement in the symlink-series ;-)
>>    
>>
>
>What about compatibility? If someone used it directly? Was it prohibited
>to use this file directly?
>
>I would prefer to write in release notes that this file is deprecated
>and remove it in 4.5. This way people will have time to update their
>extensions. Otherwise they will suddenly find that there is no such file
>and have to update their installations.
>
>  
>
I think that a major version step from 3 to 4 allows us to make such
changes.
A step in the major version number significates that all extensions have
to be verified and eventually corrected.


Regards,

Franz