<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khalid B</b> <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="e" id="q_10fa85edde98367f_0"><br></span></div>The reason they exist is historical, and is just for flexibility.</blockquote><div><br>And for an upgrade path from 4.7.<br><br>On the flexibility angle, I'm going to propose a patch with two/three changes:
<br>* page not promoted by default<br>* page with comments off by default<br>* (don't know if we can easily do this) page with "submitted by" turned off by default<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having two content types, even though identical in fields, provides more
<br>flexibility in workflow. For example, one can be moderated by default,<br>and have comments on by default, the other can be not so.<br><br>In 5.0, you can define your own type, or delete story if you don't like it.
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</blockquote></div><br>I've been looking at programmatically defining new / different content types as part of alternate install profiles. I spent some time on this today and I think I uncovered some areas that could be improved in
default.profile -- some stuff (like required modules) should be moved to system.install, and some things, (like defining page and story) might work better in default.profile.<br><br>I encourage everyone to try and make an install profile by doing "cp -R profiles/default profiles/your_new_profile" -- I suspect this is the "cut and paste" install profile method that we'll see the most of initially.
<br><br>I got pretty far today in perhaps an hour. I wanted to not have story, but instead a replacement node type called "pressrelease".<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Boris Mann<br>Vancouver 778-896-2747<br>San Francisco 415-367-3595
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