[development] Drupal's CVS policies... including 'foriegn' code in TinyMCE module?

[Scott McLewin]

Michelle Cox wrote:
>
> On 5/23/2007 7:27:59 AM, Scott McLewin (drupal at mclewin.com) wrote:
>> When third party libraries become popular they benefit from a move into
>> core, like jQuery did, and at that point they become the responsibility
>
> You make it sound like this is a common occurrence. As far as I know, 
> jQuery was a special case, and it's highly unlikely that, say, TinyMCE 
> would become part of core.
>
I cannot speak to the frequency.  As Drupal's popularity increases, I do 
believe we will see more incorporation of third party libraries in 
contrib modules, and as I wrote earlier today (in my time zone) I think 
managing a common version of those third party libraries within core for 
modules to share is indeed added work for the core maintainers.

I don't buy Karoly's security argument as the driving reason for why we 
have a problem with this 'foreign' code, but I do believe we have a 
looming problem with the management of third party libraries.  I'll be 
pleased to be wrong on this point.

Scott