[development] Attention Views API developers

[Dmitri G]

Derek, you were absolutely correct about what I was thinking.

No, I didn't think you were trying to be annoying. I'm sorry if I
conveyed that message.

I was simply wondering what reason was behind needing to implement the
hook. After reading the documentation again, it's more clear to me.

Thanks,

Dmitri

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:
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> On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Earl Miles wrote:
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>> Because when you try to inherit classes that aren't loaded, PHP dies a
>> horrible awful death.
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> Duly noted, thanks.
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>> I'm pretty sure I mentioned the 'causes sites to crash' part already.
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> Indeed.  However, you didn't explain why, which is completely natural in a
> summary email that's painting the "short version".  That left people with a
> justifiable curiosity about why the naive solution (having a default
> implementation of this hook) wouldn't work.  Between your latest message in
> this thread and reading api-handlers.html[1] I now fully understand.
>  Thanks.
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> Speaking only for myself (and probably Dmitri), let me add that I'm not out
> to get you, blame you, or prove you wrong. ;)  I love you and deeply respect
> your work.  I only wanted to give Dmitri the benefit of the doubt, and to
> learn from your efforts.
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> Thanks,
> -Derek (dww)
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> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/views/help/api-handlers.html?revision=1.2
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