[development] The new menu system

[James Walker]

On 26-Sep-06, at 10:50 AM, John VanDyk wrote:

>> At 9:44 AM -0500 9/26/06, John VanDyk wrote:
>>> this new system gets rid of the $may_cache switch in hook_menu().  
>>> hook_menu is now called only upon module enable/disable and admin/ 
>>> menu. this is outstanding. however, we no longer have a place to  
>>> stick our drupal_add_css() and drupal_add_js() type calls.
>>>
>>> so, lets create a new hook_signal($op) which fires at various  
>>> points during a request. Initially, it replace hook_init() and  
>>> hook_exit() with $op=precache, $op=postcache, and $op=exit. We  
>>> shall also add $op=postbootstrap  which is where the  
>>> drupal_add_css calls will go.
>
> This is an unneeded level of abstraction. We already have signals  
> that fire at various points during a request. They are called  
> hooks. They are faster and more descriptive than hook_signal($op).
>
> hook_precache
> hook_postcache
> hook_exit

i agree... but also - none of those makes it clear to me *at all*  
that I should be putting my add_js/add_css code in them.

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