On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:54 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
One of the things that has bugged the snot out of me is this story and page module. Not seeing a difference I went looking for what it the difference might be. Then I find a post by Steven Peck http://lists.drupal.org/archives/documentation/2006-08/msg00063.html that say basicly nothing. Certainly that is what appears to be. What is worse is they are both turned on and both can be deleted from the content types. I think that now page should be on by default and not allowed to be deleted; it becomes the require content type. I think that story should be removed from core and maintained as a contributed module as an example of how node modules can be created. I think doing these will help remove confusion from the beginning Dural experience.
Earnie
There are a couple of reasons its advantageous to have both similar modules as a starting point for users. Their differences are their conceptual role in your website, which will lead to different templates for each, and different functionality enabled through nodeapi for each. The new world of drupal nodes will all have these vague lines of differentiation that will mostly be defined by the site configuration, theme. It just means more flexibility. .darrel.