[development] install system

[Boris Mann]

On 13-Jul-06, at 11:28 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:

>
> On 13 Jul 2006, at 17:19, Earl Dunovant wrote:
>> But it begs the question: how are we going to handle install
>> profiles?  Where and how to maintain them?  Should we have one or
>> more profiles in core?
>>
>> If you have profiles is core, does that kill the idea of Drupal  
>> developing into a set of APIs and cutting back on core modules?
>
> Earlier this week I explained why I do not intend to remove core  
> modules, except maybe for the archive.module.  The install system  
> doesn't change that fact.
>
> Should I move the archive module to contrib?

Or get a maintainer and replace it with that CodeMonkeyX updated one.  
I have no problem with archive-functionality in core...I have a  
problem with a *crappy* archive module in core.

(to which, of course, the answer is -- supply patches)

-- Boris