[development] "Package" misuse

[Earnie Boyd]

Kevin Reynen wrote:
> I see this issue as being trivial compared to keeping third party code
> like JQuery plugins out of modules and CVS.  That is a policy that's
> blatantly ignored.  I have been trying/failing to get module
> developers to adhere to like this issue in the views_rotator module...
>
> http://drupal.org/node/701926
> http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/views_rotator/views-rotator.js?revision=1.6&view=markup
>
> There are 4,000+ sites using that module with an old version of jQuery
> Cycle Plugin that makes it difficult for other modules to leverage
> features of the jQuery Cycle Plugin without going in and hacking the
> .js file in that module.
>

Yes, that is a bad one too and in my opinion, this one should be brought 
the attention of the webmasters [1] so that it can be handled.

> I know there are improvements in the javascript handling in D7 that
> allow one module to override another module's javascript, but that
> doesn't change the fact that developers will ignore any "policy" if
> there is no enforcement.
>

Again, we, the users are the enforcers.  So if we find something out of 
line then we need to bring it to the attention of the administrators.

[1] http://drupal.org/project/issues/webmasters

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