[TYPO3-core] RFC: #8492: tiny stuff in the Help Module #1

[Steffen Kamper]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Steffen Kamper wrote: on 04.07.2008 12:31:
> 
>> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
>>>> Another thing in my mind is that after a simple upgrade of an 
>>>> existing installation, the help icons will be gone, as they are not 
>>>> among the list of installed extensions (as those were no extensions 
>>>> before). So we need an upgrade wizard where these extensions are 
>>>> added to extList to provide an easy upgrade path.
>>>>
>>
>> can you help me where this happens? I can't see that.
>>
>> beside that i did the changes you mentioned.
> 
> You added the two new extensions to
> 
>     t3lib/config_default.php
> 
> in $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['extList'].
> 
> But in an installed setup, this is not relevant, because this setting is 
> overwritten by an already installed typo3conf/localconf.php.
> 
> So if one upgrades from a working 4.2 (or previous), neither "about" nor 
> "cshmanual" will be in the list of installed extensions, which means 
> those entries will disappear from the modules menu after the switch of 
> typo3_src to the newer version.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ernesto

ah, now i got it, thx for the explanation!

vg Steffen