On Oct 25, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Michelle Cox wrote:
> I knew that .info was meant for 5.x, but (nearly) all
these project
> pages that are currently for 4.7 modules will be for
5.x modules
> soon. I was afraid they would undo everything I'm
doing. I didn't
> get a direct answer to my question, but the wording of
related
> posts made it sound like that's not the case.
as the person most likely to write any code that takes .info
files
and replaces project descriptions with them, i guess i
should speak
to this...
i have no intention of doing anything like this anytime soon
for a
variety of reasons:
1) the new release system is more important.
2) porting project* and friends to the 5.x API is more
important.
3) .info files are still too new, and will probably be in
flux for a
few versions of core. before i (or anyone else) invests
serious
effort to do something like this, i'd like to see the .info
files a
little more well-established and mature.
4) i think the kinds of descriptions we'd want in the .info
files and
in the project pages are totally different. as someone
pointed out,
the .info files are specific to a given release, whereas the
project
node's description spans all releases and branches.
moreover, the
full project page text could potentially be large, and one
of the
points of the info file was to prevent running out of memory
on the /
admin/modules page (/admin/settings/modules in 5.x, i
guess). i'd
hate to see the .info files bloat so huge that we start
running into
this problem again. ;)
5) .info files are *entirely* specific to drupal code, and
project.module needs to be useful to other sites, too. we
probably
will have a project_drupal_org.module in the near future to
put the
worst of our site-specific hacks into, but i'm not
interested in
making project.module significantly more specific to our
usage than
it already is.
so, i'll boldly assert that this will NOT happen during 5.x,
and
possibly not ever. ;)
cheers,
-derek (your under-slept and sometimes friendly
project.module
maintainer)
p.s. rock on michelle! +1 to just editing directly (and
leaving a
revision). thanks for improving drupal. ;)
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