[development] One-to-one tables considered harmful

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Robert Douglass <rob at robshouse.net>:

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>> I have been reading the posts and wondering what is so different 
>> about a comment.  A comment is nothing more than content very much 
>> similar to a node.  As content it has a specialized content type 
>> which at the moment isn't visible to the administrator.  So, I think 
>> to myself that perhaps a comment should be treated as a node and the 
>> comment table is nothing more than a one to many relationship 
>> mapper.  I'll give this some more thought toward D-7 I can see this 
>> idea as enhancing many modules.
>
> Please to check out the nodecomment module which does just what you 
> describe: http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
>

Sounds like a starting place to add functionality to the core comment 
module.  Since nodecomment is a replacement for the current comment 
module maybe it even makes sense to just replace it with nodecomment; 
renaming nodecomment to comment of course.  I would like to hear from 
Dries on this idea.  I don't see why we need a special table for 
comment content when we already have a building block for content 
wrapped up in a node.  We only need to map child nids to a parent nid.

Earnie