On Tuesday 10 January 2006 07:20 am, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
This is the difference between the OSX (.app directory) and Unix way of doing things.
The OSX way is far far simpler, and much much cleaner.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but it is analogous. Group By Resource Type vs Group By Resource Application. Both directions have a laundry list of advantages and disadvantages. The killer, though, is that managing a Group By Resource Type setup (Unix style) is a usability nightmare, UNLESS (a) You are an uber-expert who likes doing things the hard way or (b) You have a complete front-end to manage everything for you (package manager, vis. RPM, apt-get, and so forth). Drupal doesn't have that at the moment. Until/unless Drupal has a fully-managed module package manager (installer), Group By Resource Type is only going to make managing a Drupal install insanely harder. The security issues should be solved some other, less painful way. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson