[development] is nodeapi hook a requirement or not?

[sime]

Moshe Weitzman wrote:

> i've bumped into a limitation in node.module that i makes me squirm. 
> our bulk node operations on admin/content/node are very efficient 
> because they perform single UPDATE statements like (make these nodes 
> promoted):
>
> db_query('UPDATE {node} SET status = 1, promote = 1 WHERE nid IN(%s)', 
> implode(',', $nodes));
>
> the problem is that we don't let modules know about these changes via 
> nodeapi. so modules which listen on nodeapi('update') never know about 
> this change. oddly, the delete operation does do one by one deletion 
> which is good because we aren't leaving behind cruft in ancillary node 
> tables.
>
Is it feasible to extend the existing hooks, so that other modules are 
passed a list of nids?

OK, when I think about it, this will create an area of nodeapi that 
SQL-deficient developers would have trouble adapting to, many would 
ignore it, and we'd be in the same spot. Still, I'm interested.

.s