Views is an query builder, and there's going to be an query builder in D7...couldn't views pretty much work out to a consistent UI for that?
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Naheem Zaffar<[email protected]> wrote: > Talking as someone who has not used views extensively, has views really > changed that greatly within versions? > > Going by the numbers alone, Views 1.x was for Drupal 5, Views 2.x is for > Drupal 6. Maybe I am wrong but I would assume that the changes from 2.0 to > 2.5 the current release do not impact on the underlying infrastructure all > that much? > > And this is with a "freak" core lifecycle of two years which I assume will > not remain the norm. > > 2009/8/10 Cameron Eagans >> >> Why would you want views in core? >> >> You put views in core and it is frozen. Nobody can do anything with it (as >> far as changing it: adding new features, reworking existing code, etc). As a >> contrib module, the Views maintainers can decide how they want to run the >> release process for Views, and I personally would like to keep it that way >> -- it allows for a LOT more flexibility and a much faster development >> lifecycle. >> >> Plus, core is already weighing in at around 9.5 MB. Adding another 4.5 MB >> of code to maintain doesn't seem like a good idea to me. >
