See #396380: Enhance Views to support proper GROUP BY queries. Looks like Views may soon incorporate this module's features?

I ask because, if there is no differentiation, further work on Views Calc will just duplicate other efforts.

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aren cambre commented

http://drupal.org/node/649642 says Views 3 goes to beta in spring 2010.

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karens commented
Status: Active » Fixed

No, there are a number of other things this module does, it creates custom calculation fields, adds css to right-align number columns, and more, it does much more than add in aggregation.

Plus this module has been in use for a couple years and there are people depending on it, so we can't just pull it.

Is this really critical, asking if this should be abandoned only a couple weeks after another module adds in some overlapping code? I haven't even had time yet to see how much duplication there is.

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karens commented

Also, those new features will only be in Views 3, which doesn't even have an official release yet. People using Views 2 will still need everything this modules does.

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aren cambre commented
Title: Should Views Calc be abandoned? » Should Views Calc be superseded by Views 3?
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Fixed » Postponed

I haven't even had time yet to see how much duplication there is.

Then let's postpone until Views 3 beta?

Look towards the bottom of http://drupal.org/files/issues/group-by_0.patch. It's gonna do group, count, sum, avg, min, and max, which is all that views calc appears to do, too.

Sorry about "critical"--inadvertent. And sorry if I'm being aggressive, but you do so much good work on so many modules that I was trying to help you by pointing out where your load could be relieved.

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karens commented
Title: Should Views Calc be superseded by Views 3? » Create new version adapting to Views 3
Category: support » task

See the project page for Views Calc: "You can also create custom dynamic fields that can be used in any view using SQL snippets like CONCAT('field_first_name', ' ', 'field_last_name') or DATE_FORMAT(node.created, '%m/%%d/%Y'). The custom fields are set up in admin/settings/views_calc."

It doesn't appear the new patch to Views does anything about that, nor does any other module I've seen, and many of the people using this module use it for that feature.

I need to keep the current version available for people using D5 and Views 2 for D6. We can leave this issue open because I need to create a new version to work with Views 3 that removes things that Views does and adapts the rest to work with the new Views code.

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aren cambre commented
Title: Create new version adapting to Views 3 » Create new Views Calc version adapting to Views 3

Clarifying title because it appears in another issue.

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jpstrikesback commented

Really looking forward to a version that works with views3, does anyone have an idea of what is required to update this to work with views3? If there was a todo list I would do my best to help.

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We might take the ball and help to port Views Calc. Still depends some final customer needs and possibly funds provided.

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karens commented

@miro_dietiker, that would be much appreciated :)

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Status: Postponed » Needs work

We have an initial working 6.x-3.x and a 7.x here.
Will take some more days to commit and make em available to you all.

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roball commented

Does views_calc 6.x-3.x-dev work with both Views 6.x-3.x and 6.x-2.x or just with 6.x-3.x?

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roball commented
Title: Create new Views Calc version adapting to Views 3 » Support for Views 2 & 3
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-3.x-dev
Component: Code » Documentation
Category: task » support
Priority: Normal » Major

Please can you just clarify which version of Views Calc supports which version of Views?

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karens commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

The D6 version is no longer supported.

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Pierre.Vriens commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Needs work

Undo last comment ... Anybody (like Miro?) who can answer the question in #17?

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Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

Uh that's like YEARS ago...
If i remember properly, 6.x-3.x was started to create a branch that is compatible with views 3.x... By then this was a common pattern to deal with the Views situation.

The whole 6.x world just feels like from a different age and i'm pretty disconnected from it due to our primary Drupal 8 focus.
And yeah, see KarenS statement.

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Pierre.Vriens commented

Thank you Miro. Just in case you wonder where my previous comment originates from: checkout #2198015-37: Support D6 for as long D6 core will be supported, and look at the current D6 usage statistics.

The question I keep asking myself: what to do with the 6.x-3.x-dev version (used in 139 sites)?