[development] install system

[Gabor Hojtsy]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Boris Mann wrote:
> 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)

I am looking into updating that module. Weblabor.hu got az ISSN number 
partly because of having a date based browsing interface (which is the 
calendar and the archive module providing it). So we are in need of the 
functionality obviously.

Goba