[development] One core, many distributions

[Larry Garfield]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:30 pm, Andre Molnar wrote:
> Adrian Rossouw wrote:

> > I also believe we should never ever show a node id to an end user.
>
> I hate software that tries to think for me.  (If another word processing
> program dares to, by default, capitalize something that I didn't
> capitalize to begin with - or another IDE, by default, adds so much as a
> line break to my code - or if any software suggests another file name
> for me when I go to save - so help me god I'm going to... ... fume
> because there's nothing else I can do). How can we as developers presume
> to KNOW how the end user wants to see their URL's?

Agreed.  Some are obvious.  (Eg, user/username vs. user/userid is a no-brainer 
that's easy to code and isn't being "smarter" than the user.)  Others, I dare 
say most, are not.

> p.s. Am I the only one that sees beauty in the simplicity of
> example.com/node/13 meaning the 13th node of content on a site - and
> node/1000345 being the 1,000,345th node on a site... and am I the only
> one that thinks 1 million aliases might be a bit silly to generate
> automatically?

See, my problem with pathauto is not the auto-generation, it's that putting 1 
million entries into the path_alias table is going to kill your system.  Of 
course at that point, the numbers make more sense anyway (or some other 
numeric format, like issue # and then article # for a magazine, but still 
numeric).  

Really, though, I'm trying to avoid thinking of new and cool things for Drupal 
until after 4.7 ships. :-)

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"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of 
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, 
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to 
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession 
of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  -- Thomas 
Jefferson