Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Hi,

We are running Drupal.hu (on Drupal 5.1) with menu module turned off. We don't need those features. By looking at the code though, system.install has the menu table creation code, so menu module has no schema control of its own. Menu module is certainly not required, since sites run fine without it (we have custom primary navigation written in few lines of PHP code, which is a lot more performant then menu.module).

My question is that leaving menu.module install code in system.install was just on oversight, or is menu module required after all for some more exotic reasons (not only navigation menu editing)? If the latter is the case, the next Drupal 5.x might need a fix to make menu.module required. But I doubt.

Ps. I know the menu is being reworked for Drupal 6.x, so this is not applicable to HEAD.

Gabor

all core modules have their install code in system.install. we never got around to refactoring nthat before code freeze. menu.module is not required.