[development] Split module into two?

Dmitri Gaskin dmitrig01 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 02:57:53 UTC 2009


Why not separate storylink and make it use updown instead of  
vote_up_down, and deprecate vote_up_down in favor of updown, and of  
course provide an upgrade path?
I'd be able to help with this later this month or next month (or at  
least the upgrade path)

Dmitri

On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Pratul Kalia wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I maintain a set of modules called Vote Up/Down Package -
> http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down
> It's essentially 2 modules (which is why its 'package'). One module
> provides the voting interface. The other module is called Storylink,
> and it provides a Digg-submission-like content type that has a title,
> some small info and a link to the actual story. It also has other
> stuff like a JS bookmarklet.
>
> Since this module has been in existence, these both modules were
> packaged together. I feel now that it would be beneficial for people
> to have these as separate modules since they perform 2 separate tasks.
> Initially, these were together to give a Digg-like package. I don't
> really see people using the package for that purpose now. I'd like to
> know what other developers think about this issue. Should I separate
> Storylink and develop it as a separate module?
>
>
> cheers
> pratul
>
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