[drupal-devel] forum.module dependent on comment.module

Hi! forum.module is dependent on comment.module in a very visible way on this line: $topic->new_replies = comment_num_new($topic->nid, $history); and in subtle ways, by SELECTing from node_comment_statistics which is INSERTed and UPDATEd in comment_nodeapi. First of all, this at least needs to be documented and also we need to describe how to have a site where users can not comment but can use forums. Second, we shall either change forum not be dependent on comment or we shall make a mechanism which makes sure that if forum is enabled then comment is enabled also. I do know that this could delay 4.6 but this is very confusing and there are several threads already on drupal.org about it. Regards NK