Why keep using "published" as a status column item?

[Carlos Rodríguez]

In the "JTable" class, the "publish" method by default uses the "published" column, as the column which identifies whether the item is published or not. Joomla 3 uses the "state" column for this purpose. So, why keep using "published" as a status column item?

[Bakual]

It's not consistent across extensions.

com_content and com_banners use "state", languages, categories, modules, menues, newsfeed to name a few use "published".

[Carlos Rodríguez]

Then, in a third party extension would have to use something like this 

$table->setColumnAlias('published', 'state');

It is correct?

[Bomx]

As far as I remember published turned into 'state' which describes the state of an article. This is core specific change, as mentioned above you may call it current_state/whatever. 

In third party ext. you make your own tables and you manage them yourself, so you don't have to keep core standards. Threat component as single app - that's all - your own app. Just get as much as you can from built-in API and keep MVC so later you'll change less, or more:)

[George Wilson]

Yup that's the recommended way to do it!

Kind Regards,

George

[Carlos Rodríguez]

Thanks for the help.

Kind Regards,

Carlos