[development] CVS HEAD, code freeze, zeitgeist

[Darrel]

Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
>> Contrib CCK is working with 4.7. The fact that it doesn't work ith HEAD
>> is due to a table name collission. That's all, as far as I know.
>
> That's the main reason why contrib CCK doesn't work with 4.7. There
> are (as far as I can think of) 3 other (related) reasons:
>
> 1. The 'node_type' table in core HEAD has a somewhat different schema
> to the 'node_type' table in CCK contrib.
> 2. User-defined node types (i.e. all CCK node types) no longer need to
> be defined through hook_node_info(): they only need to have their
> entry in the 'node_type' table maintained.
> 3. There is now a UI for adding/editing/deleting node types in 
> node.module.
>
> (1) will take a reasonable amount of work to address. Contrib CCK will
> need to switch from using its own API functions, to using the new API
> functions provided by node.module, wherever possible. Where not
> possible, CCK may need to have some of its SQL queries (and dependent
> code) modified.
>
> (2) should be easy to address. Just remove the content_node_info() 
> function.
>
> (3) should also be easy to address. Just remove the content type
> add/edit/delete UI from content.module (since core now provides it),
> and leave the field add/edit/delete UI.
>
> This is just my predictions - I haven't actually investigated updating
> CCK myself (that's up to the CCK maintainers). Also, I should point
> out that I know a lot more about the new CCK features in core, than I
> know about contrib CCK.
>
> Cheers,
> Jaza.
>

That was my biggest problem with the pave the way for cck patch.. 
fortunately the update will be simpler than I expected... ;)...