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

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey Steffen,

could you provide this update for the help modules (so the new sysexts 
get installed when upgrading from 4.2 and below) ?

thx.
benni.
-SDG-

Steffen Kamper wrote:
> 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