[development] Switching themes in modules

Darrel O'Pry dopry at thing.net
Thu Jun 22 22:14:42 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 23:59 +0200, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> On 22 Jun 2006, at 21:38, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> >> In the link above, he already answers that question: "This module can
> >> provide a lightweight solution to taxonomy_theme.module or  
> >> sections.module
> >> if you only want to switch to a single different theme based on  
> >> URL paths."
> >
> > I read that. Still I see no difference. Sections is very small. The  
> > amount of
> > code in both modules is not much different.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong: I am all for choice. But two modules that do  
> > almost
> > exactly the same, in almost exactly the same way, with almost the  
> > exact same
> > code are IMO a waste of time.
> 
> Is that why you forked core's upload.module ? ;-)

No that would be stubborn, and core's upload.module being a pita. :) 
Same reason I started rewriting the file handling from the ground up.
I can't think of a graceful upgrade path. I can think of a migration
path to something new though.

RFC: http://darrelopry.com/docs/filesystem








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