[TYPO3-core] Minutes of the 6.0 release team meeting

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Jigal van Hemert schrieb am 19.07.2012 14:31:
> Hi,
> 
> On 19-7-2012 13:43, Thomas Maroschik wrote:
>> I already thought about that. You could alternatively tell the TER that
>> every newly uploaded extension version has to have a TYPO3 version
>> constraint for the maximum of the current rc1 version. Extension
>> developers in TER have just to reupload their extensions every 6 months
>> if they are working on the current version.
> 
> We are planning to let the TER force a depency on a currently supported
> TYPO3 version (solution is backwards compatible with current Extension
> Managers). The problem is with the EM in existing installations. It
> always suggests to install the latest version and if I remember
> correctly it doesn't check dependencies at that point.
> 
> We can change the EM behaviour in current branches, but it doesn't help
> with existing installations (if people don't upgrade if newer versions
> of their core are not security updates).

Since TYPO3 fetches it's extension list using an user-agent like this:

  User-Agent: "TYPO3/" .TYPO3_version

it *could* be possible to differenciate the extension list on server
side (a couple of Apache conditions), so that we simply have static
extension lists for 4.5, 4.6, 4.7... This also makes the size of files
to be downloaded smaller.

Cheers,
Ernesto