Its not necessarily how major it is. For example, my blog MOD adds a full blog to your website. 2 edits to the template which will be eliminated in 3.1, the rest is all in separate files and using the hooks system already in olympus.BullsNet wrote:Well, yes for the major plugins of course, but I am saying for 98% of the plugins you should not be editing files and just uploading the plugin to the forum and the forum takes care of the rest and all you have to do is press a button to install and activate and in adminCP and in adminCP you can change the settings around of it.DavidIQ wrote:Well we're trying to eliminate the need to do such things alltogether (even though, realistically, someone will probably need to edit the core files at some point)BullsNet wrote:C) Done, if no MINOR(takes 1 minute even for a beginner) edits.
Its the same with a number of MODs, its whether they add functionality or whether they change it that matters. And this can all be done with hooks, the only problems come when there isn't a hook in the right place and then all you need to do is post an RFC for that hook and it (will most likely) be added in the next release. Occasionally you will need to make edits but very very rarely.
But this is all already planned (and extensions have already been implemented) for 3.1 so I don't really see the point of this RFC?