[development] hook_nodeapi()

[Larry Garfield]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 4:34 pm, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> In Drupal 5.0, the difference between hook_insert() / hook_update()
> and friends, and hook_nodeapi(), is smaller than ever; and there is
> less need than ever to actually still have the former in core. With
> the new CCK-partially-in-core features, it's likely that before long,
> there will be no such thing as module-defined node types. There will
> only be user-defined node types.

I hope we don't go quite that far.  I can see all-nodes-are-CCK as a nice 
future, but I still want to be able to provide a pre-defined node type as 
part of my module.  Not everything should be a recipe.  

The ideal, methinks, would be import/export/hook support for CCK the same way 
Views has.  Then many modules simply become a pre-packaged node (user 
editable), some pre-packaged views (user-editable), maybe a pre-packaged 
field type if needed, and a little glue code.  

That would be terrific.  Not allowing modules to define nodes at all but 
relying on the user, that would be ugly.

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