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dr:what [2010/09/05 18:26] fgmdr:what [2020/11/23 17:23] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-Of course, Drupal has historically been about the community more than the software, but this is not the point. The question here is: what defines the Drupal experience technically, be it for developers, themers, or content authors+====== What defines Drupal ? ======
  
 +Of course, Drupal has historically been about the community more than the software, but this is not the point. The question here is: what defines the Drupal experience technically, be it for developers, themers, or content authors.
  
 +==== Why ? ====
  
 +The goal here is to think what [[dr/drupyx|Drupyx]] should (or not) be. Similar previous attempts were designed differently:
  
 +  * Drupy 1 was designed as a line-per-line [[http://php2python.org|PHP-to-Python]] port of the under-development Drupal 7
 +  * Drupy 2 was designed as a rebuild of Drupal 7 main features on top of Django
 +  * The goal for Drupyx, besides improving the overall Python-fu at OSInet, is to provide a Drupal-like developer experience (DX), themer experience (TX), and admin experience (AX) on top of Python, without an additional framework layer
  
 +Drupy 1 shows how low-level porting has been a trap, and actively discourages from pursuing in the same vein without higher-level thoughts.
 +
 +Discussion transferred to http://groups.drupal.org/node/108604
 ==== Developers ==== ==== Developers ====
  
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   * The theme() mechanism, with its overlaid overrides, theme functions and templates   * The theme() mechanism, with its overlaid overrides, theme functions and templates
   * Render arrays, with their properties (#) and elements (no #)   * Render arrays, with their properties (#) and elements (no #)
 +  * Complete renouncement of basic PHP practice expected (forms, superglobals, sessions...)
   * Refusal to give in to the MVC for the benefit of practitioners with more academic training than experience   * Refusal to give in to the MVC for the benefit of practitioners with more academic training than experience
   * Storage   * Storage
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   * Content (until D6)   * Content (until D6)
     * Everything rich is either a node, comment, or user account (until D6)     * Everything rich is either a node, comment, or user account (until D6)
-    * **Every** piece of rich content has a **unique** owner+    * Every piece of rich content has a unique owner
     * Fieldable nodes (CCK) and accounts (Profile)     * Fieldable nodes (CCK) and accounts (Profile)
     * Terms and vocabularies are plain text     * Terms and vocabularies are plain text
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     * Yes, even fields, although it may not be implemented yet     * Yes, even fields, although it may not be implemented yet
     * Including user accounts     * Including user accounts
 +  * "Simpletest"
 +  * IRC #drupal, #drupal-dev: possibly the single most important developer feature
 +  * http://api.drupal.org: an always-up-to-date public API reference for anyone to use without having to set it up on their server
  
 ==== Themers ==== ==== Themers ====
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   * RTL support   * RTL support
   * Presupposed XHTML (until D7)   * Presupposed XHTML (until D7)
 +  * Blue :-) 
 +
 +Something will have to give, here: Python seems to be unusable as a PHP-like templating language, thanks to its reliance on indentation.
  
 ==== Admins ==== ==== Admins ====
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     * Drush does not count, being contrib an addon     * Drush does not count, being contrib an addon
   * Themable extensible query/report builder (Views)   * Themable extensible query/report builder (Views)
 +  * IRC #drupal-support: possibly the single most important developer feature
 +
  
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