[development] Install profiles should be in their own directories

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Wed Aug 9 15:03:06 UTC 2006


On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Gary Feldman wrote:

> Khalid B wrote:
>> Install profile is confusing .
> Part of the confusion is that, grammatically, it should be "Installation 
> profile."  (Nouns can be adjectives, and nouns can be verbed, but verbs can't 
> be adjectives.)
>
> Installation profile works for me, but I prefer package configuration or 
> package description.  If the file will be *.profile, then package profile 
> seems good.

The problem with calling it a package is that it is supposed to be 
downloaded in a ZIP file. Now it is completely possible to ask the user to 
grab Drupal latest version and copy some install[ation] profile files into 
the folder (extract my zip file to that folder too).

Install[ation] profile means that the stuff is not necceserily expected to 
be packages as a single pack, but will be together in installation time.

Gabor


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