[qooxdoo-devel] Contribution support

[Fink, A. <And...@af...>]

Hi all,

we often have problems with contributions we use in our project, if we migrate to newer qooxdoo versions.
The actual case was the UploadMgr contrib. We migrated our app from 2.0.2 to 2.1.

The UploadMgr contrib has in case the FormHandler is used calls to qx.bom.Element.create which was already deprecated in 2.0.2 and is removed in 2.1.
Not one of the steps for the migration checks this. Not even the lint job gives us a hint that the contrib we are using has errors nor any of the compile jobs (source, build, ...).

In this special case the bug was not even noticed while testing because all Browsers and Versions we test didn't used the FormHandler for uploading.

The question is, if there is any way the framework could help here. A great new feature could be that the lint and/or migration job also checks contributions used.
So what do you think, is this possible? Should I file a feature request? Or are there already features we didn't know of?

Best regards,
Andreas