[development] How could everyone win and get Views in Drupal 8?

[Jamie Holly]

Yeah I agree we really need to keep Drupal lean. I wouldn't want to see 
the entire Views package integrated as-is. I wouldn't mind some of the 
functionality included though that would give an easy way to alter some 
core queries. One that comes to mind is the comment query. Sometimes 
there are needs for extra data from the user table to be pulled in, and 
currently there really isn't an easy way to alter that query in 
comments.module.

I've thought in the past about a hook_query_alter, but that could really 
add some overhead - especially on sites with a large number of queries.

Jamie Holly
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>:
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> > I really like that whole idea. Then we could have handy hooks to  
> > easily modify those queries if someone wishes, like maybe an easy  
> > way to add index hinting.
> >
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> But we can have those hooks maintained in a contrib module as well.   
> We just need to have a api.contrib.drupal.org or  
> drupal.org/contrib/api.  I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core lean.  
>   The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better it would  
> be.
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