i think this would provide a few enhancements:

1) ensure that people are using the right version of FCKeditor with the module
2) eliminate confusion about where to install the editor within the drupal file tree
3) make upgrades easier by eliminating the possibility of overriding the editor itself with the blank editor file that comes with the module

honestly, it would be great of the editor was included in the module.

thanks!
debra

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bsimon commented

I agree that having a single download for the FCKeditor module would have many obvious advantages. It would save the many new Drupal users a lot of time and frustration, and prevent all the confused, random support requests from people who have installed FCKeditor files in the wrong place, or with the wrong permissions, etc

I always assumed this was a license problem, but surprisingly it seems to be because of an official Drupal policy, according to this discussion about the issue from 2006. FredCK, the creator of FCKeditor offered to help roll the FCKeditor code into the module, but was (a bit rudely) rebuffed.

Probably there's more that I don't know, but from my point of view, this policy is hard to understand... it probably made more sense years ago when Drupal users were all experts and FCKeditor was being updated very frequently. But these days, Drupal presents a very user-friendly easy-to-install face to new users... until they try adding a WYSIWYG editor...

Anyway, at least Drupal 7 will probably have a WYSIWYG editor built in.

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wwalc commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I can't find it anywhere at this moment, but I have seen somewhere in the Drupal documentation that it is not allowed to put third party code in drupal CVS.
I think it would be better for all if we could include FCKeditor in the module, but it's against the rules at this moment.

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bsimon commented

but I have seen somewhere in the Drupal documentation that it is not allowed to put third party code in drupal CVS.

I guess this is the rule (see paragraph 4)

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/README.txt?revision...

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debonator commented

thanks for the responses, guys. that, my friends, is a rule that should be changed.