[development] duplication and input format modules
Dries Buytaert
dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 10:01:45 UTC 2007
Personally, I don't think duplicated modules are that big of a
problem and it is certainly something we should _not_ punish people
for. I'm a firm believer of the fact that "deliberate duplication"
is a good. "Unfortunate duplication", i.e. duplication as the result
of the fact that the author didn't know an almost identical module
already existed, is something we have to reduce though.
> I have a pretty good idea of existing modules as they stand now,
> not all, but a
> fair proportion, and would be interested in helping with this. When
> I read the
> first e-mail in this thread I immediately thought of a "duplicated
> module hall
> of shame" (possibly with a nicer title) wiki in the contributed
> module status
> group or similar, to serve as a reference point for people to avoid
> yet another
> duplicate. I can think of at least 3 candidate sets of module for
> this already.
--
Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
More information about the development
mailing list