[TYPO3-core] RFC: #7982: Rename TYPO3 to TYPO4 and change all libraries accordingly

Oliver Hader oliver at typo3.org
Tue Apr 1 17:50:41 CEST 2008


Hi Michael,

Michael Stucki schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Problem:
> Many people confuse TYPO3 version 4.0 and later and speak of it as TYPO4.
> To accommodate these people and make their lives easier we should rename
> TYPO3 versions released since 4.0 to TYPO4.
> 
> The new versions are thus TYPO4 1.0 (TYPO3 4.0), TYPO4 2.0 (TYPO3 4.1), and
> TYPO4 3.0 (TYPO3 4.2).
>  
> To make the step complete we of course need to rename class libraries like
> t3lib to t4lib and the typo3/ folder to typo4/, too.
> 
> Solution:
> Attached is a patch which renames all occurences within TYPO3 4.2. Of course
> all files still need to be renamed, but that is not possible to represent
> in a patch, so just imagine I had done so.
> 
> Branches: TYPO3_4-0, TYPO3_4-1, TYPO3_4-2
> 
> Bugtracker reference:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7982
> 
> Comments:
> Some notes on compatibility: I don't care much about it since extensions can
> easily be adopted with a simple shell script (attached).
> 
> Attached is also the updated version of the logo. Thanks to Ingo Renner for
> taking care of this!

I had to update three of my extensions, but it took only some minutes 
and now everything works fluently again. Thanks a lot for your work!

+1 on reading and testing

olly
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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Core Team


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