I have frequently thought there should be an easier solution to this.
What I key into though, is that all these folders, regardless of
location, are just called "modules" /modules, sites/all/modules,
sites/sitename/modules I even have one site (not my doing) with a
sites/all/modules/custom/modules/
It seems to me that we should have three separate names for three
separate concepts of accessibility.
/core_modules
/sites/all/universal_modules
sites/default/local_modules
Someone with better naming-sense then me should come up with those
names, but just throwing the idea out there.
-Sam
On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Dave Reid wrote:
If we move sites/all/modules to /modules people are never going to
realize they can do sites/mysite.com/modules. Then it doesn't also
fit into the standard paths for other things like sites/all/
libraries and sites/all/images, etc. In all honesty people are going
to not read documentation and hunt for where to install their
modules. People will still find /core/modules and put contrib
modules there anyway. How this is solved is via the new module
install interface in D7 and being able to select modules to include
when downloading from drupal.org so it automatically packages things
correctly.
Dave Reid
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Adam Gregory <[email protected]>
wrote:
I would agree. It's not incredibly apparent to a new user that they
need to create different modules and theme directories in the
various sites folders when they install Drupal. If we are trying to
advance the project to the next level then this should definitely be
something we look at. I think Kens idea of creating /core/modules
and /core/themes is a good idea. In addition why not just remove the
sites/all folder and by default use /themes and /modules as the
equivalent of /sites/all. That's more intuitive to someone who has
no idea about Drupals multisite capabilities. I think that would
make it easier for first time users to set up and use Drupal, which
is one of our objectives for making Drupal the best CMS out there.
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