<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 16 Nov 2007, at 4:41 AM, Derek Wright wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My efforts aren't going to be "around about D7 time".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If all goes according to plan (and all the current pledges of funding actually come through), there will be packaged install profiles on d.o in about a month or so.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I have every intention to support fully packaged D5 install profiles.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Of course, that doesn't rule out other install profile improvements once D7 development opens up.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But, people shouldn't consider this functionality something only for the distant future.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>I'm just worried about what happens when D7 comes out.<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't think that the hook_profile_modules is very sensible for install profile module requirements, and I fully intend on</DIV><DIV>introducing .info files for Drupal 7.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This would mean that install profile packaging will get broken during the drupal 7 development, and will need to</DIV><DIV>be maintained, in tandem with the old mechanism.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>