[development] Confused: package value of info files

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Dec 21 04:24:06 UTC 2006


Quoting Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com>:

>> experience if the user has more than a handful of "Other" modules.  
>> Shouldn't the user see a grouping for Taxonomy for all of the 
>> modules dealing with Taxonomy?
>
> No, because that is a category. That is not a package. Please see the 
> archives of the development list for an already extensive discussion 
> of this, specifically my own message here, which inspired this docs:
>

To you it is a package but to the end user looking at the menu it is a 
category or package grouping; a module is a package; more than one 
module focused on extending the same function is a package group.  The 
end user experience is what matters, not the dev types that know what 
it is supposed to represent.

>  http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2006-November/021080.html
>

Yes, I have read your technical explanation before.  It is the end user 
experience I am trying to benefit.  I agree that a module in a package, 
package grouping, category or what ever it is needs to move to Other if 
there is only one in the grouping installed in the users environment.  
I disagree that if I have more than one Taxonomy module package 
installed that the menu should display both of those in the Other 
package grouping rather than the Taxonomy package grouping.

Earnie


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