[TYPO3-core] "contrib" vs system extensions

[Martin Kutschker]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> in the discussion to include PEAR in typo3/contrib/ we in the core team
> agreed that this is an extension, thus should reside in
> typo3conf/ext/pear and have its local data stored in typo3conf/tx_pear.
> 
> Now in ECT the argument came why aren't json, prototype and
> scriptaculous system extensions? There is an extension called
> "scriptaculous" in TER (from Joerg Schoppet, a member from ECT that
> brought up that argument). Maybe we could upgrade this to a sysext and
> remove it from contrib?

Fine with me. In fact I wondered why with have "ADOdb" sysext but not a 
"prototype" extension.

As for dependencies, I would mark them as essential which makes it 
impossible to remove them.

Masi