>>I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core lean. The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better it would be.<br><br>Wouldn't adding views to core do just that, ie the 8 or so module Earl mentioned? re-pasted below.<br>
<br><br>tracker.module: Just a view.<br>
blog.module: Just a view.<br>
/node front page: Just a view.<br>
/rss.xml: Just a view.<br>
node content admin: Could be a view, with VBO.<br>
user admin: Could be a view, with VBO.<br>
recent comments block: Yep, a view.<br>
recent blog posts block: Yep, a view.<br>
active forum posts? Sho 'nuff.<br>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I really like that whole idea. Then we could have handy hooks to easily modify those queries if someone wishes, like maybe an easy way to add index hinting.<br>
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But we can have those hooks maintained in a contrib module as well. We just need to have a <a href="http://api.contrib.drupal.org" target="_blank">api.contrib.drupal.org</a> or <a href="http://drupal.org/contrib/api" target="_blank">drupal.org/contrib/api</a>. I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core lean. The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better it would be.<div>
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