Sounds about right to me. But sites needs a further fixup. If I don't have a multisite setup and just modify the default site then that gets overlayed when I do a download of a new release. I would suggest that all setups be multisite (even if only one) or that the current default settings.php be called sample.php and that the user configures it and names it settings.php so that it doesn't get overridden by a download.
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Larry Garfield Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:19 PM To: development@drupal.org; chris@tinpixel.com Subject: Re: [development] let's cleanup /misc
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 01:54 pm, Chris Johnson wrote:
c) Isolation (this is the big one for me) the separation of :
1. Drupal Core files. 2. Contributed modules 3. Site data files (attachments, images, ...etc.).
Isolation is the big one for me, too. I need to be able to quickly find core, versus add-on/contrib versus data, and be able to make mass copies, backups, perm changes, etc. as an admin. It is error prone to have to find everything by hand, one at a time.
..chrisxj
Random off-the-cuff thought that I ask no one implement before 4.8... :-)
Currently, modules and themes can be placed in /modules and /themes, respectively, OR in /sites/mysite.com/modules and /sites/mysite.com/themes, if you're using Drupal's multi-site feature.
Why not introduce /sites/all/, and require any non-core-package stuff to go there? So any contrib modules would go in /sites/all/modules, for instance. That way, All non-as-downloaded files are in /sites/ somewhere, and you can just backup that directory and be done with it?
There's no change in functionality, just a few paths within Drupal's includes since it already looks for modules and themes in a bunch of different places.
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