Reply To: the permalinks issue – another way to look at it
> the hobbled together mess
Just to push back a little on this one. There are a couple of key ways in which BP’s current permalink router is not ideal (it’s not amenable to caching; it’s not non-pretty-permalink friendly; it’s hard to write unit tests for it; it leaves some slugs difficult to change). Moving toward the WP Rewrite API is a worthwhile project, because improving on these areas are worthwhile things to do.
However, it’s important not to overstate the problem. The current system works just fine for many thousands of BuddyPress sites. While there would be new efficiencies and configuration possibilities with a new system, it’s unlikely that their absence to date has ever been a dealbreaker for any BuddyPress site. @synaptic or others, I may be wrong about this, and if there are specific ways that the current router is holding you back, it would be very helpful to know more about those details.
In any case, while it will require a large amount of work to build a new system that’s compatible with the old, it’s not doing any active harm to existing (or new) sites to use the current (perfectly functional) system. So let’s not get too carried away with the idea of forking our own project 🙂
