[TYPO3-core] Question about new LocalConfiguration file and extension list

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Christian Kuhn schrieb am 05.09.2012 12:42:

> On 09/04/2012 04:50 PM, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>> On 4-9-2012 9:08, François Suter wrote:
>>> The new LocalConfiguration.php file has both an "extList" and an
>>> "extListArray". Why do we need that?
>>
>> It was done for better backwards compatibility. I can't remember if
>> actual cases were found, but code which checks extList for the presence
>> of an extension will still work this way.
> 
> Yes. extList is there for compatibility reasons. The first patches
> removed it, or substituted it with the new array presentation, but
> extensions like phpunit (who directly do something with extList) threw
> warnings then and didn't work anymore.
> Therefore, we decided to keep extList, and add extListArray. extList is
> not used in the core anymore, though.
> So: It should be ok to manipulate extListArray only, ignoring extList.

> It might also be a solution to only write extListArray, and add extList
> transparently to the globals array during bootstrap and mark the
> according code as deprecated.

That last feature would be cool and avoid some confusion around it! +1

Thanks!

Cheers,
Ernesto