[development] Move all core modules into their own directories.

Dries Buytaert dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Wed May 3 12:31:27 UTC 2006


On 03 May 2006, at 12:54, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
>> Can you explain us more about said dependency system?  I've never  
>> been a big fan of meta-data files.  I remember that chx wrote a  
>> very simple dependency system that adds about 30 lines of code and  
>> no meta-data files.  It relied on a new _dependency() hook and  
>> that was pretty much it.  Sounds a lot simpler to me but maybe I  
>> oversee some limitations?
> The limitation there is, you still have to load all the modules to  
> find out what the dependencies are.
> And then you can still have namespace conflicts (you should never  
> have more than one theme loaded at the same time. and themes should  
> have metadata too)

Because I'm not sure these namespace problems are real.  So far, we  
managed to avoid them pretty easily.

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