Once I commit #1342294: add a module to create entity types and entities from tables, then the data_node and data_taxonomy are pretty much obsolete, as relating a data table record to either a node or a taxonomy term can be done by adding either term reference or entity reference fields.

The matter of whether there is any extra functionality we need to take care of ourselves is best answered by users of the D6 version of module (ie, not me).

Then there's the matter of the upgrade path. I'd assumed that data module was mostly used as a 'temporary' module to bring data into Drupal from custom tables which can then be discarded, but from comments in the issue queue that does not seem to be the only use case.

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joachim commented

Wow, it's been 2 years!

There's not been any feedback on this issue, or any patches to get the Data Node and Data Taxonomy modules ported to D7.

In fact, this commit 2 years ago rendered those submodules completely unusable on D7 and nobody has complained:

SHA:	0d6c807e39172c4bd953fafb963022c99e8f1561
Author:	Joachim Noreiko <joachim@107701.no-reply.drupal.org>
Date:	Wed Dec 07 2011 14:25:50 GMT+0000 (GMT)
Subject:	by joachim: Downgrading core version of data_node, data_search, data_taxonomy modules as these have not been fully upgraded and are likely obsolete.

Hence I'm going to shortly remove these two modules from the D7 branch.

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joachim commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Fixed

Commit 37e03a0abeff8410446e9f7d093fca33cb011ab1, should anyone ever want to find the latest version of the code for these and do anything with them.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.