[TYPO3-core] Code of TER-Extensions

[Jost Baron]

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Hi Christian,

no, I don't fear the shell (actually, I use it all the time). But this
is actually to much fuss for just looking something up. Downloading
would not be the problem, but browsing through the files is a pain in
this case. After downloading and extracting the archive, I'd need to
browse the files from the shell (which is no fun), or I need to open a
filebrowser-window, go to the extraction folder, and then open the files.

I'd rather have some place where I can either browse the code in the
browser (doesn't need to be github), or at least can download an
archive which I can extract directly after downloading and then browse
the contents (the latter one being a suboptimal solution).

Regards,
Jost

On 10/07/2014 11:52 AM, Christian Zenker wrote:
> Hi Jost.
> 
> If you don't fear the console you can use Typo3ExtensionUtils
> 
> Dowload the tool
> 
> git clone -b dev-2.0 
> https://github.com/czenker/Typo3ExtensionUtils.git cd 
> Typo3ExtensionUtils composer install
> 
> Then use something like
> 
> php bin/t3xutils.php ter:fetch -x news
> 
> or
> 
> php bin/t3xutils.php ter:fetch -x --version="3.0.1" news
> 
>> I am searching for an easy way to *just read* the code of 
>> extensions in TER.
> 
> You have decide for yourself if you consider this *easy*. :)
> 
> 
> As an alternative just look for the public repository on 
> forge.typo3.org, git.typo3.org, github, etc.
> 
> Hope that helps, Christian
> 
> Am 07.10.2014, 10:40 Uhr, schrieb Jost Baron <jost.baron at gmx.de>:
> 
> 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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