[TYPO3-core] Announcing TYPO3 4.0 Release Candidate 2

[Kasper Skårhøj]

I'm inclined to support ingmar for his practical perspective here. We  
will simply have less trouble and more happy users.

- kasper

On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:05 , Ingmar Schlecht wrote:

> Hi Martin and Karsten,
>
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>> I prefer changing shipped templates
>
> Shipped templates are already changed, that's not the problem.
>
>> and making a strong announcement in the release statement about it.
>
> The real problem is, that a lot of people might have references to
> media/ in their custom template, I guess stuff from media/ is used in
> most TYPO3 websites. So why make the upgrade process so complicated as
> to require people to go through all templates to check if there are
> references to media/ if we could solve the whole problem with one  
> single
> line of code?
>
> All those things like Newsletter subscription and FE User registration
> will break because of media/fe_adminLib.inc and G/TMENU_LAYERS will
> break, too (as written by Kasper in his mail from today).
>
> IMHO we should have one release in the future to break backwards
> compatibility in, but I see no reason to make 4.0 such a release.
>
> If you are keen, you could implement a check for compatVersion there,
> but TYPO3 should *at least* accept references to media/ when it  
> runs in
> 3.8 compatibility mode.
>
> But I think your time is better spent on reviewing Ernesto's CSS  
> imgtext
> patch wich *must* enter the core before 4.0, than to spend time on
> disabling the media/ path resolving based on compatVersion.
>
> cheers,
> Ingmar
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- kasper

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