[TYPO3-core] Status of TYPO3 6.2 LTS
Christian Reiter
cr at --nospam--cxd.de
Wed Nov 20 22:20:55 CET 2013
Hi,
> As I'm already using 6.1
> I would like to have a FAL migration-wizard to 6.2 like 4.5 users get
> for their installations. *sigh*
AFAIK there is a step for splitting out metadata into the newly
introduced sys_file_metadata table in 6.2 if you don't have that, and
just recently an upgrade wizard to create the newly introduced
identifier_hash appeared. In fact I didn't go 4.5 to 6.2 but have done
smaller steps because the sites I dealt with had so much old custom
code. SO I went 4.5,4.7,6.1 and from there to 6.2
I'm happy with the direction FAL is taking in 6.2 because with the new
sys_file_metadata table, the little sysext/filemetadata that extends it
and the built-in categorization I can finally begin to do the basics of
proper file data management without having complex extensions.
In 6.1 of course we have the media extension and the we_dam2fal to
import to it but this is built on a different model than 6.2 now has,
and is again a big extension when I just want solid basics for most
projects, so I really want to avoid this.
> the preparation for 6.2 would be easier if some of the new features/
> behaviours alreday would be backported (as extensions?) to earlier
versions
Actually I'm against that.
The installation base needs a big motivation to finally leave the old
stuff behind.
If developments out of 6.2 get backported old versions this takes away
the pressure to upgrade,
it forces too much "compatibility" again and uses too much resources of
the core developers.
Right now 6.2 is developed, FLOW is developed, 6.1, 6.0, 4.7 and 4.5 are
maintained, and then 6.2 developments should be backported? And then
maybe some extbase features are missing in the older versions that it
should be backported to, etc; and suddenly you are opening a huge can of
worms.
Wordpress isn't porting new stuff from 3.7 back to 3.0 either ...
> .. to get used to it
> .. to get a smoother migration
I was disappointed with the stability of the 6.2beta1 but pleasantly
surprised with the migration. It has been easier than I thought so far.
I am really dealing with some dinosaurs - sites that were built anytime
from TYPO3 4.1 to all the way back to 3.6, and that have been dragged
along to 4.5. I would have expected this to be absurdly painful but it's
doable. However I am not waiting for a big "smooth migration" button
that will do everything by itself.
best regards,
Christian
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