Hi. I have been corresponding w/ Arthur on his blog re: this-thanks for your replies A. The reason I am starting an issue is that, though I am no developer of Drupal infrastructure, I suspect there may be something larger going on here...

Installing XSPF Playlist under Drupal 5.2, I find there is a required module:

Depends on: Content (missing)

... of which I can't find any mention anywhere. Arthur mentioned that until recently this module required CCK, but latest commit (which is what I was installing) doesn't-though apparently it "thinks" it does...

In continuing to try to research this I ran across the following 2 posts which given this is happening for another module, seem to me to indicate there may be a typo either in some basic Drupal code or being copied into module code-please see:

http://drupal.org/node/105288
http://drupal.org/node/124303

... just thought this might save someone some hair pulling...

Best,
CDB

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arthurf commented

Sounds like you didn't get the most recent code which is under the DRUPAL-5 branch. If you installed the 0.5 version, that will still require CCK. What version of CCK do you have installed currently?

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butler commented

I must not understand how to find the Drupal 5 branch? I downloaded:

xspf_playlist-5.x-0.5.tar.gz

... from the XSPF Playlist project page... is there a place to download dev versions of modules other than the project page? I'm kind of new at this so apologies if I am being dense/ignorant.

Thank you...

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arthurf commented

Drupal uses CVS for version control. There are versions of this module which are not accessible via project page, but via CVS. Generally, when people develop, they don't release the latest code, they go through a period of testing and/or getting other people to test code. Right now, the version of this module that is on the project one got deemed "stable" at one point and it was released. Of course, it isn't perfect (as you've found out).

So you have a few choices: you can go ahead and install CCK (content) which will resolve the dependency, you could download the latest version of the module from CVS, or you could wait a few days until I get my feet back under me to really test out all the new code that is in the module and release the next version.

best of luck!

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butler commented

Arthur thanks a lot for explaining that, for all your work on this-and other-much needed project(s).

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arthurf commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing this issue