Op donderdag 3 februari 2005 09:45, schreef Carl McDade:
> This philosofy is one that is solid in other software industries but
> only in parts of Drupal. Holding to it in the case of modules would
> solve a lot of the problems with UI and and database modification.
This philosofy is -and i am happy about that- nbot Drupals. It is this
philosofy that made *nuke a unmaintanable chaos, anarchy.
No, We have this idea of modules-that-extend-modules now, and we will
stick to
that AFAIKS (AFAIKH as far as i can hope). The next step in this
philosofy
are the bundlles. For weblinks we are working on an example.
Regards,
Bčr
This paradigm is not condusive to bloat or anarchy in that the true
core is controlled and developed with care. The core does not have to
make accomodations for a needed functionality to be added. What this
allows is the implementation of other software as modules and the
possiblilty of developing modules as stand alone software. The ability
to borrow from or connect to the core rather than weighing it down with
interdependancies is the best method for continued improvement without
the luggage of performance and usability problems. Items brought into
the core could actually be made smaller and more powerful by bringing
them closer to the core rather than weakening the core by making adhoc
adjustments and increasing its size with extensions.