Posted by aaron on January 6, 2009 at 4:07am
I've recently committed the File (hook_file) module, which is an experimental backport of file.inc from Drupal 7 to Drupal 6. From the project page:
This is an experimental backport of Drupal 7's file.inc "hook_file" API to Drupal 6. Things work the same, except anywhere you would call a file_xyz function, you would call hook_file_xyz. Also, anywhere you would implement hook_file_xyz, you would instead implement hook_hook_file_xyz. This would give modules the new functionality, and when ultimately upgrading, developers would replace the functions by simply changing all occurrences of "hook_file" to "file".

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still needs work. i just
still needs work. i just pulled it up and it seems like there still a bit of work to be done. it wasn't very well synced with head and there was DBTNG code as well.