[development] Drupal Folder Structure

[Charbel Khadra]

i don't see what you are posting is a major issue.
any user who is going to deploy drupal application should a have a minimum
technical level to be able to read the basic insatallation step of a module


Charbel Khadra
charbel at ebizproduction.com
www.ebizproduction.com


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ken Winters <kwinters at coalmarch.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Josh Miller wrote:
>
> Is there anyone else worried that the Drupal folder structure encourages
> users to drop modules or themes into the wrong place? Wouldn't you like to
> have a folder structure that separates core from the rest of the
> customizable sites folder?
>
> As this issue could blow up in the issue que (http://drupal.org/node/22336)
> perhaps a short discourse on the mailing list is in order. It's weird that
> we all care so much about coding standards and yet we let our folder
> structure look so thrown together.
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong. I have feeling the real reason we are putting up with
> such a confusing structure is that moving files can introduce a big wtf and
> some might think we should leave it well enough alone. On the other hand, I
> believe it's broken and not at all grokable for 100% of the newbies.
>
>
> I'm all for moving the core modules into /core/modules, themes into
> /core/themes (or anything equivalent) in D8.  It seems way too late for D7.
>
> What we could do in the immediate is put a text file DONTTOUCH.txt or
> whatever in those folders, with instructions on what users should actually
> be doing.
>
> On a related note, some modules encourage users to place custom code or
> plugin modules into [module folder]/modules,
> which is bad because they can easily be deleted when the main module is
> updated.  I think we should discourage this.
>
> - Ken Winters
>
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