On 20 Jan 2007, at 12:19, Bèr Kessels wrote:
However, maybe its a bad idea to call it nodifying. Nodes have been serving a specific purpose for too long in Drupal. I guess many developers can no longer see trough the nodes-as-primary-content anymore, and therefore lack the ability to think Out Of The Box when it comes to this.
That way people won't confuse 'general objects' with for example the {nodes} database table. And won't need to wrap their brains around the idea of a 'node beig more then a title+body'. etc. Because right now people often fail to think about the Larger idea of generalised objects, and instead come with arguments like 'but putting averything in a node-table will be bad for performance'. Sure it will, but the whole database architecture is not even talked about, at this point.
This certainly doesn't hold for me. You stop underestimating people's ability to think. :) As you said, there might be room for a light-weight container object, that both nodes, comments, users and taxonomies extend from. It's something I've been thinking about for quite a while. But that's not what FGM proposed, and not what I responded to. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/