Op zaterdag 8 juli 2006 11:15, schreef Dries Buytaert:
We have a long way to go. Let's focus on getting the install system in first.
I would love to work more on the "brochureware" part. But from what I have seen so far, the install profiles are still vapour. Hence I will continue developing that brochureware stuff outside of core-patches and, for now, without install profiles. And I hope -sincerely- others do that too. There already is a forum distro. Maintaining a blog distro is not hard (esp if you are an active blogger yourself) and We don't need install profiles to maintain distro's. Install profiles will only make that maintainance a tad simpler. But the actual Real Work, like making modules not conflict, weeding out security issues in modules you want to provide, endless tweaking of the Start-Off Configuration, needs no install profile. Take blog-distro: looking for the Perfect Solution For Inline Images will take you weeks. Its not a matter of installing a few modules. It requires tweaking, modifying, patching etc. A distro that is simply Drupal core with three extra nmodules in a tarball, is not a distro, IMO. It's the whole experience that counts. And that requires time, not an install system per-sé. Bèr [1] If install profiles are in, in 4.8, I am sure that they need at least another round of patches before we can actaully *use* it. At least, that is the impression I get from Fapi over time. It works, It is a tep forward, but it has a lot of annoying things (and don't say: where are your patches, because that is the worst part: I don't understand the underlying code so making Fapi patches is way over my head).