I think that is where the misunderstanding is coming in. We need to decouple those terms in this case .. module being a Drupal module, plugin being a jQuery plugin.<br><br><a href="http://jquery.com/plugins/">http://jquery.com/plugins/
</a> currently lists 363 available jQuery plugins. What Larry seems to be talking about is having 1 single Drupal module to activate/deactive this plugins if they are available on the local system, rather than having 363 individual Drupal modules to active/deactive these plugins.
<br><br>It seems like a reasonable approach to me. Conflating module and plugin in this case is what is leading to the confusion, I think.<br><br>William<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Earnie Boyd</b> <<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</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;">
Quoting Larry Garfield <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>>:<br><br>><br>>> Excuse my ignorance but why wouldn't the module system we already have<br>>> suffice? The .info file would allow for the enable/disable and each
<br>>> .module would add the enabled JS to the queue.<br>><br>> Because then you'd need a separate Drupal module, with some<br>> boilerplate PHP, for every JS plugin you want to install. I'm<br>> talking about a small framework module that lets you manage what 3rd
<br>> party JS plugins are installed. The same PHP code in a half-dozen<br>> different modules is a very bad thing. :-) (insert usual commentary<br>> about duplicate code here)<br>><br><br>The .info file will handle the administration of de/activating the JS
<br>plugin module. Sometimes using the same code is necessary but that is<br>what my question was trying to prevent. I don't see why you want<br>another method to control activation of the module (I envision plugin<br>
and module as synonyms).<br><br>Earnie -- <a href="http://for-my-kids.com/">http://for-my-kids.com/</a><br>-- <a href="http://give-me-an-offer.com/">http://give-me-an-offer.com/</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>