[TYPO3-ect] ext registration: name/description

[Marcus Krause]

Hi!

Michael schrieb am 11/03/2011 01:54 PM Uhr:
> On 31/10/11 21:53, Georg Ringer wrote:
> 
>>>> you can just remove the key and I *guess* you get it back again ;)
>>> wrong.
>> so please enlighten us all.
> 
> Hi Franz, hi Georg... any news here? :-)
> I would be more than happy if someone could provide some more details
> and/or share knowledge:
> 
> My understanding is so far, that the title and description you enter
> when registering a new extkey is not used anywhere.

That's correct. This information is (currently) not used; but it's
publicly exposed via TER web service.


> But what happens if you have registered an extkey and not uploaded any
> versions? I assume, in this case George is right: you could remove the
> key and register the same key again with new text/description
> information. It would be great if someone could confirm this assumptions :-)

If the extension has no versions, you are able to delete the extension
key. You can also delete existing versions. Be aware that deleteting
versions removes according extension versions from TER!


> Anyway... I still don't see any reason for the requirement to enter some
> information (that you can not update later) about the new extension,
> when you register a new key.

Well, it's up to the community to join ter/ter_fe projects to remove the
code part in question or to provide a service on basis of existing data.


Cheers,
Marcus.