[development] How to port modules? was: Drupal 7 "When it's Ready"

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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Paolo Mainardi schrieb:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
> 
>> Remember, an API is not just a bunch of function signatures. It is
>> much, much deeper than that, and they would completely change the
>> wya things have to be implemented.
> 
> A good API could change the implementation without changing the
> signatures, they not are strictly related, it's not the only
> practices to do the things.
> 
> How is related from the data storage and API ? At API level, we
> don't do any assumption on how data is stored or how is the internal
> implementation, these are things to a lower (not API) level.
> 
> I think could be possible to write a sort of more abstract general
> API on top of existent for expose a bunch of general "services" with
> Drupal versions compatilibity in mind. Could be a plugin.

Yeah, but apparently nobody of the usual suspects is interested in
doing your bidding.

[x] Go away and come back when you've got code to show.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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