I’ve just spent ages trying to find out why I couldn’t add some default views to drupal

I’d set up my views, exported them added them to a module in a hook_views_default_views() function…

and nothing happened.

specifically I wanted to create a patch equal to the changes between two versions of Drupal - but it turns out that a packaging script adds some info to releases that isn’t in the cvs version so this doesn’t quite do what I wanted.

it’s still useful though …

I’ve been using open source software and developing php for a decade or so now - but until recently the two have been fairly separate.

Now I’m working on Drupal I need to keep track of my work - and merge in the changes from ‘upstream’.

here’s the useful info I found …