Nice job Derek. Good first step.<BR>
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- Matt (mfer)<BR>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Thu Mar 8 15:06 , Derek Wright <drupal@dwwright.net> sent:<BR>
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</drupal@dwwright.net></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;">hello world,<BR>
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drupal.org infrastructure can now be used to host installation profiles:<BR>
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1) there's a "/contributions/profiles" directory in the contrib repo.<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fcvs.drupal.org%2Fviewcvs%2Fdrupal%2Fcontributions%2Fprofiles%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/profiles/</span></a> <BR>
README.txt?view=markup<BR>
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2) there's a new Project type, called "Installation profiles":<BR>
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http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles<BR>
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two critical points i wrote in the README.txt:<BR>
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a) "At this time, only files ending in .profile or .txt are allowed <BR>
to be committed, since installation profile maintainers should *NOT* <BR>
include the code of the modules that are enabled by their profiles."<BR>
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b) "In the future, we will have a system where a file in each <BR>
installation profile directory will define what versions of Drupal <BR>
core and each contrib module should be packaged with the profile, and <BR>
the packaging script will generate a single download-able tarball of <BR>
all the code, and the installation profile. Until that time, the <BR>
downloadable package for installation profile projects will just <BR>
contain the .profile and .txt files."<BR>
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it's likely that somewhere at OSCMS '07 @ Yahoo, a discussion will <BR>
break out about this topic, including:<BR>
- what to name the "packaged collection of a profile, core, and all <BR>
its contrib modules"?<BR>
- how installation profile maintainers specify what modules (and <BR>
versions!) to package with their profile<BR>
- etc, etc.<BR>
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people who care about this debate are encouraged to participate here:<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.drupal.org%2Fdistributions" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://groups.drupal.org/distributions</span></a><BR>
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for example:<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.drupal.org%2Fnode%2F2164" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://groups.drupal.org/node/2164</span></a><BR>
<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.drupal.org%2Fnode%2F2163" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://groups.drupal.org/node/2163</span></a><BR>
<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.drupal.org%2Fnode%2F3086" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://groups.drupal.org/node/3086</span></a><BR>
...<BR>
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cheers,<BR>
-derek (dww)<BR>
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