[drupal-devel] Re: [feature] Module Grouping by Folder in Admin/Modules

[Adrian Rossouw]

I was thinking of a real simple interface change just to group things  
together.

With the increased usage of the _info hook the install api and  
dependency checking will likely bring, adding 1 field to it (ie:
function module_info($key ='name') {
    $info['bundle'] = t('E-Commerce');
    return $info[$key];
}
) will allow us to visibly group the modules together.

Inter-module dependencies are part of this ticket  
(http://drupal.org/node/18447), and it should probably go into core  
first.



On 27 Mar 2005, at 1:33 AM, Chris Messina wrote:

> I think that "module bundles" that somehow express dependency is a
> great idea. This will be necessary for a number of CivicSpace modules,
> so if we could work on this sooner than later, I think the benefit
> would be apparent. eCommerce would obviously be one of the first
> beneficiaries.
>
> This same grouping technique could be applied to input filters and --
> gasp -- might even benefit from the "show/hide" functionality slowing
> making its way into Drupal now.
>
> +1 from me!
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:27 +0100, adrian <drupal-devel at drupal.org>  
> wrote:
>> Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/19477
>>
>>  Project:      Drupal
>>  Version:      cvs
>>  Component:    module system
>>  Category:     feature requests
>>  Priority:     minor
>>  Assigned to:  Anonymous
>>  Reported by:  jjeff
>>  Updated by:   adrian
>>  Status:       active
>>
>> Once this is in core, we could use the hook_info function to provide a
>> 'bundle' field, and then modify the module list to group modules by
>> bundle. (perhaps even on a separate tab? who knows).
>> http://drupal.org/node/18447
>>
>> adrian
>>
>> Previous comments:
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>>
>> March 26, 2005 - 03:53 : jjeff
>>
>> It would be nice if the admin/modules listing grouped multiple modules
>> that resided in subfolders of the main modules directory. This way
>> module collectives (like ecommerce or massmailer) would all show up in
>> the same area of the module listing. It would make enabling/disabling
>> these modules a lot more intuitive and also make it clear which  
>> modules
>> were part of a group.
>> Single modules in a subfolder would not exhibit this behavior.
>> Just a thought.
>> -Jeff
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>>
>> March 26, 2005 - 05:44 : mathias
>>
>> Being the author of the ecommerce package, I have to give a big '+ 1'  
>> to
>> this as well.  Why was this behavior removed?
>> I could see a re-implementation similar to our access control GUI  
>> where
>> the first level of folders are displayed with the modules underneath,
>> providing more context for the users.
>>
>>
>
>
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