[themes] theme dependencies

[David Landry]

Warren,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "theming modules." The first
thing that comes to mind is something like HTML5
Tools<http://drupal.org/project/html5_tools>.
The HTML5 Base <http://drupal.org/project/html5_base> theme is "designed to
go with HTML5 Tools," but HTML5 Tools does its magic before anything reaches
the theme layer, leaving no reason for the theme to call any HTML5 Tools
functions.

David Landry

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Warren Vail <warren at vailtech.net> wrote:

> David,****
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> Doesn’t the opposite exist where modules request specific theming modules?
> Is there a standard set of theming modules yet, or must you just test to see
> if the function exists?****
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> *Warren Vail*
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> *From:* themes-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:themes-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *David Landry
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:17 PM
> *To:* A list for theme developers
> *Subject:* Re: [themes] theme dependencies****
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> It's bad practice for themes to have module dependencies like that. There
> is no centralized standard for tracking modules that a theme depends on.
> You'll have to go through the entire theme looking for references to
> modules.****
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> If you want to be kind to the next person who has to maintain the site, you
> could break out any template code that has module dependency as a custom
> module or Feature, so that the module dependencies can be declared.****
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> David Landry****
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> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bert Van Kets <mailing at vankets.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> is there any easy way to know what modules a theme is depending on?
> I have a theme from a Drupal 6 site with a multitude of installed
> modules. When I use the theme on a plain vanilla Drupal install a blank
> page is installed.
> I really do not want to go through all the tpl files to see what modules
> are referenced. How is a problem like this tackled?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bert
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