Posted by christefano on August 16, 2008 at 11:24pm
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| Project: | Footnotes |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Footnotes |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (won't fix) |
Issue Summary
Better URL filter looks like it's very useful to people regardless of whether they're using Footnotes, and I'm wondering why it wasn't contributed as a separate project. Installing Footnotes in order to benefit from it is sort of like installing QuickTime and iTunes on Windows and somehow ending up with Safari, too.
Anyway, would you create a "Better URL filter" component to the Footnotes project?
Comments
#1
Hi christefano
You are absolutely right on both points.
But the thing is that there shouldn't be a Better URL filter in the first place. The real URL filter that is in Drupal core should be this filter, however core developers have failed for a year now to commit the code. So to fork it from core was a last resort I had to do so that people can use it (and it just so happens that footnotes users especially suffer from the old URL filter not working right). But I still hope that one day (maybe not 7.0, but lets hope after that) the fixes will be committed to core and Better URL filter can cease to exist. Creating a separate project or subproject is therefore something I hope never needs to be done.
See http://drupal.org/node/260484#comment-966252 for a summary on how this never got into core.
So for now, just install Footnotes, use Better URL filter and don't use footnotes in any of your input formats if you don't want to. (They are separate filters, even if they are released in the same module.) Let's hope we never need to create a separate module for it.
#2
Thank you for the background. I wasn't aware of it at all and only noticed that Better URL filter was included in Footnotes 2.0.
It breaks my heart a little to read your comments at #260484. My suggestion, for what it's worth, is to contribute Better URL filter as a separate project and let users vote on the issue with download counts.
#3
hingo,
If you decide to make Better URL filter a separate project, you might be able to take over this deprecated project:
http://drupal.org/project/urlfilter
#4
Hehe... that seems to be the original code for what's in core now. Would be funny to funnel in code that way again :-)
Anyway, it seems there is still hope that Better URL filter will be in core for D7. Last time I chatted with one of the core developers, they said that since the priority for the bug/patch is critical it will have to be fixed before releasing 7.x. Remains to be seen.
#5
Just noting that the patch to URL filter in core is still uncommitted, but on the other hand D7 is still not out. Will continue to wait for a D7 release before doing anything with this bug.
#6
Better URL filter is now committed to D7.
Marked the version that comes with Footnotes module as deprecated. It will remain in D6 version of Footnotes, and disappear from the D7 version.