[TYPO3-ect] "package extension"

[Daniel Pötzinger]

Christian Welzel schrieb:
> Daniel Pötzinger wrote:
> 
>> Of course lib should not depend on much other extensions, cause it has
>> relevant classes for other extensions.
> 
> "lib" was only a placeholder in my description.
> Call this extension as you like.
> 
>> But we can have an extension "lib_package" which depends on
>> lib / xajax / ...
> 
> But whats this for?
> An ext can depend on several other exts itself. So why should i depend my 
> ext on an ext of that i have no control about? What happens if someday the 
> dependency of "lib_package" on xajax changes to superajaxtoolkit2? Every new 
> installation if my ext that depends on "lib_package" will not work anymore.
> 
>> But this is what Elmar creates with the ect extension.
> 
> But what if Developer A depends his ext on "ect" because at the time
> of release of his ext, "ect" had the correct depedencies itself? And
> later Elmar adds other stuff? The same as in my notice happens.
> 
Well you are right - I am also not convinced about package extensions 
but what if you guess this rules:
- package extensions just helps to install certain usefull extensions faster
- your own extension should not depend on a package extension

However :-)