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

[larry at garfieldtech.com]

Docs have been here for the past 11 months:

http://drupal.org/node/310069

Or track me down in Paris, as I fully expect to spend most of the code 
sprint(s) helping people with upgrades.

Jamie Holly wrote:
> Learn something new every day! I haven't started playing with D7 yet, 
> but I can see that becoming a very handy hook.
> 
> By the way, do you have a decent reference to the new Database layer for 
> D7? I got some stuff to start converting and I would like to start that 
> in the near future.
> 
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
> 
> 
> 
> larry at garfieldtech.com wrote:
>> Um.  hook_query_alter() went into core nearly a year ago as part of 
>> DBTNG.  It only applies to dynamic SELECT queries, which is a small 
>> minority of the queries Drupal runs.
>>
>> Jamie Holly wrote:
>> > 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
>> > http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>> > > > > Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >> Quoting Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>:
>> >>
>> >> > 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.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> -- >> Earnie
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>> >>
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