If you're a Drupal developer, you're aware, no doubt, of the coming of D7. One of the exciting changes in D7 is that CCK has been brought into core...somewhat.
All things being equal, they (equal things) are not always so in PHP. It's more of...it depends on what you mean by 'equal.' No, this isn't a case of, "it depends what 'is' is" ... or is it?