[TYPO3-core] Code of TER-Extensions

[Lieuwe Hummel]

Hi Jost,

Most of the time I just need to read en extension's code, I use my own
home-brew script: http://pastebin.com/VyQewzLW

HTH

Lieuwe

On 07-10-14 10:40, Jost Baron wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am searching for an easy way to *just read* the code of extensions
> in TER. For example to see how some extension did something.
> 
> This has repeatedly proven to be a hard task: Not all extensions have
> well-maintained repositories. The archives that can be downloaded are
> t3x-archives, which are not easy to unpack (compared to *.tar.gz,
> *.zip, ...). Searching google or github does not really help either in
> some cases.
> 
> So the only reliable and "fast" thing is to download and install the
> extension into a TYPO3 installation. But there, the Extension manager
> starts to complain about dependencies or downloads a ton of
> dependencies. Not an ideal solution either.
> 
> Would it be feasible to have the code of any extension in any version
> ever uploaded to TER available for browsing somewhere? For example in
> an automatically created github-repository, were each commit is one
> release? Or something self-built?
> 
> Regards,
> Jost
> 

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Lieuwe Hummel