[wp-hackers] GSoC 2010, WordPress.org Profiles

[Mike Schinkel]

On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Stas Sușcov wrote:
> Anyway it's a tricky subject. As for now, I think using post types is an
> overhead comparing to writing some clean code that uses the db directly
> and own tables layout...

That overhead brings along lots of benefits, see the long list where each bullet starts with "Having..."

http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2010-March/030794.html

> Plus, it will offer me the freedom of creating
> spiders and scripts that can directly update the db, without taking into
> account the WordPress itself.

Please, please don't add new tables.  

-Mike