[TYPO3-hci] automatic update extension

[Michael Scharkow]

JoH wrote:

> Better example:
> apt-get upgrade ;-)

But this is still explicitly triggered by the admin.

I see two serious drawbacks to an automated upgrade:

1. If something fails, the site will be broken and we'll finally have 
the situation that users can rightfully state "I did not change anything 
but the installation is b0rked". This may be okay for Windows users who 
are accustomed to things suddenly being broken without them doing 
anything but it's very bad for reasonable web masters. It makes 
debugging extremely hard and will lead to more strange support requests.

2. Technically, you cannot control these timed uprades with TYPO3 
because it's not running continously like cron, so you either have to 
use an external cronjob or add a hook to the FE that periodically checks 
for new extensions whenever a page is requested.

Cheers,
Michael