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

[Chris Johnson]

You know I love you, Earl, but just as a counter argument to all of
these pieces of core that can be replaced by Views:  in my experience,
Views is significantly less efficient at doing most of those things.

I do admit and agree, that Views would replace a ton of core code,
just as you write.  And that a huge amount of flexibility would be
gained, as well.

I'm kind of obsessive about having fast, lightweight core code so that
I can still build a very fast site without throwing lots of hardware
at it.

So, is there a way to incorporate Views in core, but avoid using its
code in a specialized application built upon Drupal (except for
perhaps rarely loaded pages, like user admin)?

I can wish for the moon, can't I?  :-)


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Earl Miles<merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
> Cameron Eagans wrote:
>>
>> I think the argument of 'let's put views in core because it'll make
>> setting up sites easier' is kind of a bad one in this case. Views is neither
>> easy nor essential for -every- site out there.
>
> The argument for having Views in core is that Views would then power a whole
> ton of core:
>
> tracker.module: Just a view.
> blog.module: Just a view.
> /node front page: Just a view.
> /rss.xml: Just a view.
> node content admin: Could be a view, with VBO.
> user admin: Could be a view, with VBO.
> recent comments block: Yep, a view.
> recent blog posts block: Yep, a view.
> active forum posts? Sho 'nuff.
>
> Having a bunch of this stuff be Views natively, instead of hardcoded queries
> and whatnot, would be a big step closer to separating the API from the
> Application, and the Application would become *much* more replaceable. And
> tweakable. Because once it's a view, then on your site you can tweak it as
> much as you can tweak any view. And that's rather a lot.
>