[development] let's cleanup /misc

[Larry Garfield]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 01:54 pm, Chris Johnson wrote:

> > c) Isolation (this is the big one  for me) the separation of :
> >
> >  1. Drupal Core files.
> >  2. Contributed modules
> >  3. Site data files (attachments, images, ...etc.).
>
> Isolation is the big one for me, too.  I need to be able to quickly find
> core, versus add-on/contrib versus data, and be able to make mass copies,
> backups, perm changes, etc. as an admin.  It is error prone to have to find
> everything by hand, one at a time.
>
> ..chrisxj

Random off-the-cuff thought that I ask no one implement before 4.8... :-)

Currently, modules and themes can be placed in /modules and /themes, 
respectively, OR in /sites/mysite.com/modules and /sites/mysite.com/themes, 
if you're using Drupal's multi-site feature.  

Why not introduce /sites/all/, and require any non-core-package stuff to go 
there?  So any contrib modules would go in /sites/all/modules, for instance.  
That way, All non-as-downloaded files are in /sites/ somewhere, and you can 
just backup that directory and be done with it?

There's no change in functionality, just a few paths within Drupal's includes 
since it already looks for modules and themes in a bunch of different places.

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