[TYPO3-core] [TYPO3-core-internal] Deprecation strategy

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 11-7-2012 22:01, Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>> - 'typo3' dependency will be mandatory with upload and must be for
>> supported versions of TYPO3
>

I said it was a short description :-)

> So, authors will not be able to support their exts for older versions of
> TYPO3 (like 4.4)? I do not think this is good.

If you want to support older versions (I can't imagine why, but that's a 
different story) that's fine as long as the range includes supported 
versions of the core:
- 4.2.0-4.4.99 => wrong
- 4.3.1-4.6.99 => correct

> And each new version of TYPO3 will automatically obsolete 100% of
> extensions in TER. Is this right?

No, as long as supported versions of TYPO3 are inside the range it will 
be fine.

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Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 Core Team member

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