[development] Getting both better internal and external APIs intoDrupal 7

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Jan 3, 2008 3:28 AM, Nick Lewis <nicklewisatx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Users don't care how the profiles fit into our system. Users care about
> what the gizmo does (or what they dream its going to do...). Photoshop
> doesn't sell its software as a "photoshop installation". Its just
> photoshop.... Its not a binary-distro (or whatever the equivalent...).
>
> So maybe we should venture in to more generic, open waters:  *web
> application*.
>
> A multi-user moderated blog is a web application. A community calender,
> mailing list, and forum is a web application. Most people will understand
> the name to mean (I install this, and its ready to go). The web applications
> at drupal.org happen to built off of drupal.. but their target audience
> could give a rats ass. To them its just a web application. "Click here to
> browse our library of web applications".... just seems right...
>

Actually how about just "application"? So they are all "Drupal
applications".
This goes well with Drupal being a web application framework, and not just a
CMS or CMF.

While this is appealing, it is a bit of an overstretch though: a
distro/package/install profile is a collection of modules and some custom
code to set it up.

Worth considering though.

[digress=on]
Drupal being an web application framework has been discussed many times, see
here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7704
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7634


> Then again, I've been known to go mad every now and again.
>

Not today.


>
> Cheers,
> Nick Lewis
> -------------------------------------
>
> Blog: http://www.nicklewis.org
> Work: http://www.onnetworks.com
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 11:23 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin < kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 2, 2008 11:06 PM, David Metzler < metzlerd at metzlerd.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  For the record,  yeah I knew that's what distros meant, and it was
> > > that suggestion that got me thinking we needed to start a brainstorming
> > > session.  I frankly would be happy with distros.
> > > Sorry if it came off like I was stealing ideas.
> > >
> >
> > Nah. Not what I meant.
> >
> > >
> > > Not sure I agree that compound words should be avoided...If they add
> > > clarity....
> > >
> >
> > This is where we disagree. See Earnie Boyd's suggestions earlier in this
> > thread
> > and the replies to them. I don't agree with Earnie here, and agree with
> > the counter
> > arguments.
> >
> > e.g. "Install profile" and "user profile". Too much overloading of terms
> > with qualifiers.
> >
> > KISS.
> >
> >
> > > Dave
> > > On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jan 2, 2008 10:25 PM, David Metzler <metzlerd at metzlerd.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would agree, and humbly suggest that we start brainstorming on
> > > > better names for installation profile.  Some suggestions: (some have
> > > > been made already)-
> > > >
> > > > Distribution  (or some variation of distros) seems like a close fit
> > > > but also implies the software as
> > > >
> > >
> > > That is actually what distros is. Distro is the short name for that.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Configuration bundles
> > > >
> > > > Installation Suites
> > > >
> > > > Configuration wizards
> > > >
> > > > Install Kits
> > > >
> > >
> > > Let us avoid compounded names formed of many words. They are not
> > > intuitive.
> > >
> > > Here are others:
> > >
> > > Packages
> > >
> > >
> > > > ????
> > > >
> > > > Not attached to any of these but trying to start some solutions
> > > > brainstorming.... ;)
> > > >
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Michelle Cox wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 1/2/2008 2:34:42 PM, Earnie Boyd ( earnie at users.sourceforge.net
> > > > )
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >> I understand the misfortune of a module named profile is the
> > > > point of
> > > > >> this thread.  That module is relative only to user information.
> > > >  In
> > > > >> order to make it clear to everyone looking at Drupal it needs
> > > > renamed
> > > > >> to User Profile because the word profile is too vague and has
> > > > many
> > > > >> connotations to properly denote the meaning of the module.
> > > > >
> > > > > I really don't think renaming profile to user profile will help
> > > > any
> > > > > since it is install profile that causes the confusion. And I'm not
> > > > > renaming advanced profile to advanced user profile. It's long
> > > > > enough of a name as it is. :P
> > > > >
> > > > > Michelle
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> > > 2bits.com, Inc.
> > > http://2bits.com
> > > Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> > 2bits.com , Inc.
> > http://2bits.com
> > Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> >
>
>


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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
http://2bits.com
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
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