On 03 May 2006, at 9:10 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Can you explain us more about said dependency system? I've never been a big fan of meta-data files. I remember that chx wrote a very simple dependency system that adds about 30 lines of code and no meta-data files. It relied on a new _dependency() hook and that was pretty much it. Sounds a lot simpler to me but maybe I oversee some limitations?
The limitation there is, you still have to load all the modules to find out what the dependencies are. And then you can still have namespace conflicts (you should never have more than one theme loaded at the same time. and themes should have metadata too) Could you explain why you have never been a fan of metadata files? I've been aware of this dislike of yours, since the first version of phptemplate, and while I relented then, I believe it's important now that we implement them. -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com