Re: First G3 fork: make the application a module

> I've just committed a series of changes to my public fork of Gallery 3,
> available here:
>
>     http://github.com/bharat/gallery3/tree/master
>
> The focus of this round of changes is to change us from having Gallery
> be the Kohana application and make it so that the Gallery application is
> just another module (called "gallery").  It was actually fairly easy.
>
> This has several advantages for us:
>
> 1) it makes us more like other Kohana applications, which will increase
> interoperability with Kohana apps in general and makes our structure
> more readily understandable to folks familiar with Kohana.
>
> 2) it frees us from the problem that Romain discovered (and I filed in
> http://dev.kohanaphp.com/issues/1695) where APPPATH is always first in
> the cascading file list because we can force the gallery module to be last.
>
> 3) it gives us greater consistency in the code in that now everything is
>   a module so we don't have to special case APPPATH.
>
>
> Notes:
> 1) I haven't gotten scaffold/package working yet so I've updated the
> installer by hand
>
> 2) I renamed core->application and kohana->system (this is the standard
> Kohana layout) -- I'll have to change the vendor code for this too.
>
> 3) I'm sure that this will break g2_import since it's re-using the class
> "gallery" which is also in use in G2.  We'll have to come up with a
> creative workaround for that problem.
>
> I'll keep working on this in my fork of Gallery 3 and when its ready,
> I'll push it back into the main branch when I've resolved the issues
> above (hopefully tonight).  I'm happy to say that this model of
> development on Git is actually quite nice.  If you're interested, please
> clone my repo and check out how it's organized and let me know what you
> think.
>
> -Bharat
>
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