Provide integration with node comments

Sony is currently working on http://drupal.org/project/drubb which is essentially an "installation profile" module that glues together the functionality of several other contributed modules (including this one!) in order to create a viable phpBB-esque native forum for Drupal.

As part of this work, we've been putting in tons of work on the Node comments module, to make it a viable way for doing more fully-featured comments on a Drupal site (this is basically a requirement for much nicer forums). The 6.x-2.x branch includes vast performance improvements, the ability to work *alongside* core's comment module rather than forcing you to pick one, bulk conversion functionality to/from nodes and comments, and lots of other nice things.

We're hoping that this work results in a higher adoption rate for the node comment module, and so this issue is for the creation of a patch to allow your module to support either type of comments. We hope that you'll consider adding it to a future release! :)