[development] Module Builder Module 1.0

[Owen Barton]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:26 -0500, Angie Byron wrote: 
> At DrupalCon, a few of us had talked about how handy it would be to have a
> module that automatically generated "scaffolding" for modules, both to help new
> developers as well as to speed up the process of creating custom modules for
> Drupal veterans.

Great work Angie!! The integration of DrupalDocs into this will
hopefully encourage contrib developers to really use/understand the
Drupal API - and also document their own modules!

Under 'Module root name:' the help text might want to add that for
modules that might get added to drupal.org it is good to reserve the
namespace at http://drupal.org/node/add/project_project (nothing worse
than writing a big module then finding the name is taken!). Also maybe
point out that modules can (I think) conflict with themes with the same
name.

I'll try and hack out a 'module type' js/ajax autoselector when I find
some spare time :)

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:42 +0100, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> However, my implmentations are not for "Joe Weblog", no. But without any 
> effort, you can use it very well, still. Since it is all aimed at being 
> tools. We, for example, have this tied into dischosting, a provisioning 
> system. OUr dischosting system calls all the commands and thus provides a 
> nice interface for all this. Far future plans are to turn dischosting slowly 
> into drupal modules. 

Ber: I have been thinking along the same lines. For these kinds of
toolkit modules/scripts (i.e. aimed at developers and/or site admins) it
would be great to work out a system where a tool (e.g. generating a
skeleton module) could easily share the same guts between a standard
drupal front end and a snappy sympal scripts command line front end.
Maybe this is possible already, but if you have any suggestions as to
how this could be wired together that would be great.

Thanks!
- Owen