[drupal-devel] Drupal Setup
Hello, Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one. Feel free to reply with you 'setup' demands and views. Regards, Ariejan de Vroom
There is an installer for CivicSpace (a Drupal distribution). Someone (was it adrian?) is working on an installer. Please coordinate with them. See the archives of this mailing list at lists.drupal.org On 9/29/05, Ariejan de Vroom <ariejan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one.
Feel free to reply with you 'setup' demands and views.
Regards, Ariejan de Vroom
Hi,
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one.
1. People don't have time. 2. There were several fundamental things introduced which will help the install works. 3. CivicSpace already has an installer. 4. Some people already work on an installer. Goba
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ariejan de Vroom wrote:
Hello,
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right
Experienced people don't need it, inexperienced people can't write it.
now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one.
There is an ongoing attempt by Neil to write one. He is coming to Amsterdam to tell us about it. I suggest you don't duplicate his effort, but come to Amsterdam and discuss it with him. Cheers, Gerhard
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ariejan de Vroom wrote:
Hello,
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right
Experienced people don't need it, inexperienced people can't write it.
And from that fact comes most usability problems, particularly in open source. :-) --Larry Garfield
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And from that fact comes most usability problems, particularly in open source. :-)
http://drupal.org/install-system-overview - -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDPCbFgegMqdGlkasRAiAlAJ4oSC4bZrvg44gZd0mR2uYa1ksIqgCfUsPK P8if7iLLOxhZFimhu2QGVVs= =tazv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one. Neil and Adrian are working on install.
The reason this is a slow process is that apart from dependecies, there are fundamental security related problems with an installer bundled with drupal. They are not easy to solve at all, especially when you consider the different possible drupal deployment strategies. Vlado
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:11:49PM +0100, vlado wrote:
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one. Neil and Adrian are working on install.
Yep. I'm concentrating on an updater for this release. The installation system will be next. -Neil
On 29 Sep 2005, at 16:40, Ariejan de Vroom wrote:
Is there a reason for the fact that Drupal does not have an installer right now? If there are no principle objections, I'd like to get started on writing one.
Feel free to reply with you 'setup' demands and views.
We're preparing the Drupal 4.7 release. As such we're mostly interested in (i) bug fixes, (ii) usability improvements and (iii) performance improvements. So if you're looking for a task, I'd be happy to assign you one. Basically, have a look at http://drupal.org/node/31896#comment-55591 (or the entire thread) and pick a number. Not on that list are doing some performance comparisons between Drupal 4.6 and the forthcoming Drupal 4.7 (HEAD) release. We need to know if there are performance implications. Build you site in Drupal 4.6, benchmark the page generation time of various pages, upgrade to Drupal CVS HEAD, and do the same benchmarks again. Report the numbers. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
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Adrian Rossouw -
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Gerhard Killesreiter -
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larry＠garfieldtech.com -
neil＠civicspacelabs.org -
vlado