[TYPO3-core] RFC: update prototype and scriptacolous

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Ingo,

Ingo Renner schrieb:
> Hi *,
> 
> This is an SVN patch request.
> 
> Type:
> Update of 3rd party library
> 
> Problem:
> Currently we're using prototype 1.5.0 and scriptacolous 1.7.0. Since a 
> few days a preview of the upcoming scriptacolous library (1.8 preview 1) 
> is available, this one also uses a very recent prototype (1.6 rc0) trunk 
> snapshot.
> 
> In many cases it would be very comfortable to be able to already use 
> features of prototype 1.5.1.1. The problem is that we can't just upgrade 
> prototype to 1.5.1.1 alone as scriptacolous 1.7.0 doesn't work with that 
> version. (Something seems to be really broken or at least strange with 
> their release management considering backwards compatibility ;-)
> 
> I also know that the Tobias Liebig who's working on the TS editor would 
> like to use prototype 1.6.
> 
> Solution:
> update both libraries to the mentioned preview releases.
> 
> Notes:
> As we're in alpha phase ourselves I don't mind updating to a preview 
> release of the libraries as we can do this only now. We definitely can't 
> update to sciptacolous 1.8 and prototype 1.6 with a TYPO3 patch level 
> release and maybe not even after feature freeze - but that's debatable.
> 
> Nevertheless IMO we can update to the final releases of the libraries 
> with a TYPO3 patch level release (f.e. 4.2.1) if they release their 
> final versions after TYPO3 4.2 has been released as I then would 
> consider it a bug fix.
> 
> Doing the update now also gives us and the community enough time to test 
> them and find bugs that might occur relating to the update.
> 
> I'm already testing the preview releases and didn't find any bugs yet. I 
> also asked Olly to test the new versions as - to my knowledge, correct 
> me if I'm wrong - he's the only one using scriptacolous effects in the 
> core.
> 
> Special Note:
> I'd like to ship the upcoming alpha2 with the updated libraries.
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=6526
> 
> Branches:
> trunk only

+1 to everything, good strategy.

Just test if IRRE doesn't break and the pagetree still works.

cheers
Ingmar