On Nov 17, 2007 6:05 PM, Larry Garfield <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Saturday 17 November 2007, Earnie Boyd wrote:<br><br>> So taxonomy fits the "classification of things". I've found the word<br>> taxonomy used within the categorization of product items.
<br>><br>> > Vocabulary is an overloaded term, and hence confusing.<br>><br>> I agree that vocabulary is confusing and needs to be changed. There<br>> have been many suggestions but perhaps taxonomy class would be best.
<br><br></div>Renaming vocabulary would require a lot of API changes (renaming functions,<br>renaming database columns, etc.), so let's not even consider that for Drupal<br>6. We can revisit renaming it to "taxonomy.module
, taxonomies, terms" in a<br>few months. :-)<br></blockquote></div><br>Renaming the user interface does not necessarily mean that the programmer's API be changed. As far as I am concerned, vid and tid should stay the way they are, just the "vocabulary" becomes something else that is a single word uncommon term.
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