<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Gerhard Killesreiter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Paolo Mainardi schrieb:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gerhard Killesreiter <<br>
> <a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Paolo Mainardi schrieb:<br>
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Chris Johnson <<a href="mailto:cxjohnson@gmail.com">cxjohnson@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>>> But the API changes<br>
>>>> are vast in Drupal 7. Be aware and forewarned so as to consider the<br>
>>>> release date question with the proper perspective.<br>
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>>> I agree, but we must think to a soft of "compatibility API", i think that<br>
>> is<br>
>>> impossible to rewrite the world to every new Drupal release.<br>
>> I take it you are new to Drupal development?<br>
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> Yes, i don't have contribute never to Drupal core, but i work on drupal<br>
> development from a lot of time, and i've released some contribution, but<br>
> this is not the point.<br>
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</div>Maybe not.<br>
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>> We get this suggestion every time a similar discussion comes up.<br>
>> Luckily, every time the anser is: No.<br>
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> Sorry but i don't understand, why "luckily" the answer every time is no ?<br>
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</div>Because the bright people that develop Drupal have recignized that it is<br>
futile.</blockquote><div><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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>> Pretty much, yes. A full compatibility layer would like affect<br>
>> performance big time and a less intrusive version is probably not worth<br>
>> anybody's time to write.<br>
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> But D7 not will be a less intrusive version, this is the point.<br>
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</div>"less intrusive version" was referring to the compatibility layer, not<br>
Drupal.<br>
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Basically, we've had similar discussions for Drupal 4.7, 5, and 6 and<br>
all were hailed as the end of Drupal as we know it because nobody would<br>
be able to update their modules in time, etc yadayada. We probably have<br>
had this discussions for even earlier versions but luckily I've managed<br>
to forget them.<br>
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Executive summary: Compatibility layer == bad.<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree, but it's bat too rewrite from scratch every time a lot of code, like Views or CCK or Panels.<br><br>Could be nicer have at least a stable API or a *drupalX-compat" plugin with older API, but bright people surely know this things better of me :)<br>
<br>P.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paolo Mainardi<br><br>Vice Presidente Assoc.ILDN (<a href="http://www.ildn.net">http://www.ildn.net</a>)<br>Blog: <a href="http://www.paolomainardi.com">http://www.paolomainardi.com</a><br>