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ImageField 2.0, ImageCache 2.0, ImageAPI 1.1

2008, May 12 - 4:13pm — dopry

Install ImageAPI before upgrading to ImageCache 2.x!!

I'm finally comfortable enough with my Image* namespace to have official releases of the 2.x series of ImageField and ImageCache + ImageAPI...

I'd like to extend thanks to everyone who has filed issues and submitted patches, especially Drewish and Quicksketch.

Now that my 2.x's are out I can start on the 6.x ports. ImageAPI already has a working port in HEAD, but needs some bug fixes ported from 5.x-1.x. There is a patch for ImageCache pending in it's queue and it should be a trivial port.

ImageField will be the first to see an official release, since it will be needed to test the ImageCache port.

I will be developing a core compatible file api for imagefield and filefield to consolidate specialized functions used by both to maintain path correctness, implement hook_file, and hide a few messages from some of the chattier core file functions.

This will delay D6 ImageField development a little. Since CCK is still at alpha I don't see it delaying and official ImageField release. I will also probably be getting back to the CCK issue queue so I can get my D6 ports out and stable. /me waves to KarenS and Yched.

--outta the weeds
.darrel.

Comments

2008, May 13 - 1:14am — quicksketch

Woot!

Here we come Drupal 6! Thanks for all your amazing efforts Darrel!

2008, May 13 - 7:32am — JacobSingh@drup...

Great Work!

Have you checked out Asset?

It lacks much of the really solid low level file handling API stuff, but provides a great interface to assets of any kind, plus has good imagecache integration.

I don't use filefield, imagefield, etc any more for the reasons you state, and have switched to asset. I find clients can actually grok this, and that's important.

2008, May 13 - 9:13am — rszrama@drupal.org

Thanks a lot, Darrel. Your

Thanks a lot, Darrel. Your work is great, and it's definitely made the lives of a lot of Drupal/Ubercart newbies easier. Being able to auto-configure product images has been a huge plus for us.

2008, May 13 - 12:04pm — swentel@drupal.org

Great news! I'll start

Great news! I'll start testing patches for all D6 modules soon enough so I can start porting my imagecrop module also. But for now, you earned some champagne for all your great work!

2008, May 13 - 12:52pm — dopry

yeah kinda disheartens me...

I spent over a year trying to get this kind of functionality in core while I could have been staying in contrib working on imagefield and filefield.

I think Roger was very wise in foregoing trying to get his code and ideas into core and just implementing it all in contrib. It allowed him to get a lot done without review. The 2.x version of asset module looks awesome.

I'm however still interested in seeing hook_file in core, and I'm not going to be satisfied just to hide out in contrib land doing my own thing. I remember the fate of the FileStore/FsCache modules, and the lack of a migration path to anything else usable.

I would have been nice if some of the people working on media mover or asset had taken a moment to help with core file handling, and contribute some of their feedback there to help build a core fileapi that is useful to everyone. Instead of keeping their heads in that sandbox we call contrib. ;)

.darrel.