[development] Evil hack: admin/modules without memory restrictions

[Jason Flatt]

On Friday 20 January 2006 21:04, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2006, at 7:26 AM, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> > Attached is a patch that will make Drupal
> >
> > 1) read the module files
> > 2) looking for help, init, exit hooks
> > 3) write these hooks to a file
> > 4) include that file
> > 5) delete the file
>
> Or you could skip all that and have a simple text file in the module
> directory that is parseable.
>
> I don't believe there's a single good reason to have all the modules
> loaded just to get their descriptions.

There is currently an active discussion (for those of you who are not aware of 
it) on the documentation list about a similar issue.  It might be a good 
thing to collaborate this effort to produce a single item that would work 
well for both the modules and the documentation.

Here is the start of the thread:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2006-January/003280.html

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