Exactly right. I can't even name all the places in core where the core almost gives me what I want, but not quite because of a missing CCK field or column in a view.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Earl Miles Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [development] How could everyone win and get Views in Drupal 8? Cameron Eagans wrote: > I think the argument of 'let's put views in core because it'll make > setting up sites easier' is kind of a bad one in this case. Views is > neither easy nor essential for -every- site out there. The argument for having Views in core is that Views would then power a whole ton of core: tracker.module: Just a view. blog.module: Just a view. /node front page: Just a view. /rss.xml: Just a view. node content admin: Could be a view, with VBO. user admin: Could be a view, with VBO. recent comments block: Yep, a view. recent blog posts block: Yep, a view. active forum posts? Sho 'nuff. Having a bunch of this stuff be Views natively, instead of hardcoded queries and whatnot, would be a big step closer to separating the API from the Application, and the Application would become *much* more replaceable. And tweakable. Because once it's a view, then on your site you can tweak it as much as you can tweak any view. And that's rather a lot.
