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I'm J-P Stacey, and I'm a freelance technical developer and software architect, working with Drupal, Javascript, Symfony, PHP and devops, with experience in project and process management and an emphasis on usability.
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Thanks again, JP, and I'm
Thanks again, JP, and I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.
By "Entity" I meant my own defined entity, using hook_entity_info, hook_entity_property_info, and my own class overrides and CRUD functions.
As it happens, I got a reply on Drupal Answers to a different version of this question. acrosman says that I am correct, and that it IS common practice to put the entity definition in its own module and then include that module as a dependency in any module that uses the entity. If I followed this approach, I would have to figure out a way to package the two modules together in a distribution, but that is, for me, a problem for another day.
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