[drupal-devel] Cleaner Directory structure

[K B]

On 5/8/05, Adrian Rossouw <adrian at bryght.com> wrote:
> On 08 May 2005, at 2:36 PM, K B wrote:
> >
> > What do other developers think of this? It will address one gripe that
> > people have, which is the difficulty of doing upgrades.
>
> My install system would address that too.

That is great.
 
> I just don't like it because of the extra typing it requires of me, but
> I like the idea of seperating contrib and core modules/themes.

Yes. core, contrib AND configuration. This way Drupal core upgrade is
very simple. Just rename the existing drupal directory and copy a new
one in its place.

The less we make people change things, the easier the upgrade is.
 
> Also, the name drupal-local is bleh. I recommend local.

There could be name clashes with such a generic name. How about
drlocal or something like that? We can even make that name
configurable, by changing a file under the drupal directory, but then
we are back to "configuration files under code directory" thing which
we tried to avoid in the first place.

Also, if we expand the idea a bit more, we may want to move the
'drupal' directory on level above public_html. This way, only Drupal
can include files from it, and they are not accessible to anyone else,
hence can be seen as added security (not that Drupal is insecure or
anything). This helps in cases where a host configuration gets botches
up and php files are served as plain text, and people can see the
passwords in the settings.php and other info.

This has drawbacks though, it adds complexity for people who only have
one directory they serve content from, and not the parent.