[development] No module-defined node types?

[Gabor Hojtsy]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Morbus Iff wrote:
> You can't do this under the "old" way, because the user is stuck using only 
> your Emotional Story node type. Sure, "new" way modules could be used to 
> expand upon Emotional Story (making them also an Event and also a Case 
> Tracker Case), but when the flexibility exists to add fields + logic to /any/ 
> node type, as opposed to shipping one, you should use it. It's quite rude to 
> think that I have to use just YOUR node type when all 900 of my other nodes 
> are "Story", and now I have to abandon them and use "Emotional Story" 
> instead.

This possibility is in Drupal since I work with it (at least since 2003). 
There is no "new" or "old" way. It was possible since a long time to write 
node extending modules, like scheduler for example. The sad fact that 
event and some other modules were not written this way from the start does 
not imply that they do anything new by morphing to be node extensions. 
Even core modules like taxonomy and upload build on this feature. Poll is 
one example of a core node type, which is often asked to be programmed as 
a node extension instead :)

Gabor