Views integration turned ON for Webcomic 5.x-1.x-dev
Submitted by Vyoma on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 18:19.
It took me quite a while to get back on the Drupal contributor track after my hibernation in my other projects. Yesterday, I could chip in some time on it and get the views integration enabled for the Webcomic module. The updated has been done to both the HEAD and the 5.x-1.x-dev branches.
Its performance is a bit spotty and it requires a bit of bug fixing. So, if you are intending on using the Webcomic module on your Drupal installation, go ahead and download the latest development release, and report a bug.
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It's been awhile since I played with this module but a couple of questions/suggestions since you're working on it:
1 - are you keeping an eye on Drupal 6.0? It might be more interesting to update this mod for 6 at this point than 5. If I got asked by a webcomic creator about drupal now (which I do from time to time) I'd point to 6 b/c of the improvements to the theme system (which is mucho important to presenting comics on the web).
2. Take a look at ubersoft.net - a great webcomic site built on Drupal w/out the webcomic module. If the webcomic module can make it easier to do those kind of things it would dramatically increase webcomic use of the CMS.
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Submitted by xerexes (not verified) on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 15:42.Hi xerexes, thanks for dropping by.
1. Yes, I am thinking of working on Webcomic module for 6.x. In fact, I urge you to get to this Webcomic 6.x Battle Plan Wiki page and give your inputs. The reason I started with porting 4.7.x to 5.x is that I needed some way to get acquainted with the module - ths module was originally developed by Eaton. I had never worked on any other Drupal modules before and this was more of a stepping stone for me. The aim of this port is just to get the 5.x version to just work. This would help me in getting insigths on doing things better. On a further note on getting the module ported to 6.x - there are dependancy issues. It presently depends on Views module and Image module. There seems to be a 6.x-1.x-dev for Image module, but Views 6.x seems to require a lot of work before it gets ported to D6.
2. Thanks for pointing out ubersoft.net - will give me some direction to work on for the 6.x.
So, do get to that Wiki page and provide your inputs. I too intend to have this module, work quite easily with out much jumping through the hoops.
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Submitted by Vyoma on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 17:32.