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

[Moshe Weitzman]

> 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.
>

I don't see any value in a forum that disallows comments.

> 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.
> 

Well, forum.module could throw an error on its settings a q=forum page 
if comment.module is disabled. thats how other modules handle 
dependencies at the moment. Vlado has talked of improving this.