On Apr 28, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Matt wrote:
I'm imagining irate users who try re-installing the module only to discover that they have lost hundreds of quiz question nodes. On the other hand, uninstalling the schema (which, for quiz, includes tables for fields that augment the standard node fields) will cripple the nodes anyway. If that is going to cause irritation, then we might as well just delete the entire node.
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And then, again, we have the case where we leave the nodes, but remove the module-specific data that is stored in the module-specific tables. That, too, leaves Drupal broken.
So which kind of broken do we want?
Neither. If you are really using Drupal's APIs properly, the amount of breakage is rather small. Here's a poll node I made: http://img.skitch.com/20090429-c13tjq8uijniq4twrxrxxxkdxd.png Here's the same poll node after turning off the poll module: http://img.skitch.com/20090429-kpkhegfackipiqbdjas26hqcud.png Not too bad. The only error I could find was from attempting to edit the poll. If you are disabling modules on your site and not smart enough to go and delete or unpublish the content created, I don't know if that's something we should watch for. It's not inconceivable that a user could disable or un-install a module unintentionally, so I think core has already adopted the best approach here. -Mike __________________ Michael Prasuhn mike@mikeyp.net http://mikeyp.net