~devel list delurk~ On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 23:07 +0100, Drupalista wrote:
Hi,
I've modified the img_assist module to work with the gallery module to allow users to easily pick images from an embedded gallery. I know it
that´s what I mean - so there are two more new image modules?
Why don´t you get together and produce ONE killer-img-module? Why are there 10 different modules for image uploading and handling?
Make ONE. Only ONE that works, please.
I might have radically different needs (such as the handling of RAW files in addition to something like PNG or TIFF) or I might have moderately different needs that requires EXIF information including all the exposure information as well as the camera shooting the photo being pulled out and having a taxonomy term being created on the fly in addition to having dedicated taxonomies for subject, type of photography and the location the photo was taken. I might even want to sell some photos online and allow others to post and sell them. I might need to be able to offer a complete gallery offline with a tar.gz created on the fly of all imagines in a taxonomy with a test file describing all of them (which pulls information not only from the nodes themselves, but also taxonomy). That would be one killed image module, however, I really doubt that anyone wants half of those features, let alone all of them. Plus, a feature that many people want, inline image uploading while creating a node, I have literally no use for whatsoever. Because of all of this, this hypothetical module flat out won't exist if I don't sit down and write it, but I'm OK with that since I'm grateful for what the Drupal developers have given me to play with. What you deem a kill image module, others deem useless. Sure there's lots of work that can be done, however, I think that the Drupal approach of keep things small and modular and not monolithic will mean that there will be no one image module, just like there isn't one ecommerce module. This is something users will have to get used to in addition to the fact that just because you want something doesn't mean that a dozen developers will say OK and start working on it just because you said you wanted it. -- brian@brianpuccio.net GPG Key ID 0xBBD2401F