[themes] theme dependencies

[Laura Scott]

If you see a future need, I recommend http://drupal.org/node/474684 "dependencies[] for themes, so they can depend on modules". Now filed for Drupal 8.

Laura


On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:03 PM, David Landry wrote:

> Warren,
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> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "theming modules." The first thing that comes to mind is something like HTML5 Tools. The 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.
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> David Landry
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> 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
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> 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?
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> Thanks.
> 
> Bert
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