[development] GPL policy: request for clarification

[Corey Bordelon]

I'm not familiar with "adept", but I've seen how RubyGems works.  It seems
like a very good model to follow for command-line based
installers/updaters.  I'm sure it using some magic meta programming that
can't be ported to php.

Has anyone thought about using the PEAR installer?  I heard alot of hype
about it in the PHP community at one point, then it died down.  I think
http://pearified.com gives a list of a few channels already setup.

We could create a drupal channel and have core, it's modules, and all the
modules in contribs available through it.  Then to install drupal core after
they've "discovered" our channel, someone could do "pear install
drupal/drupal_core".   I believe it already has a bit of
versioning/dependency checking built into it.  I know that it is preferred
to not rely on any third party projects, but (AFAIK) PEAR is supported with
the official PHP project.  If we do have to hack it to our needs, this could
be a way to give back to the "mother project", so to speak.

This could possibly lower the bar of entry to installing new modules.
Following with Bèr's philosophy, a decent web-based module
retriever/installer/updater could grow up around it allowing an
administrator to update their site without ever leaving it.

Those are my (likely over-ambitious) thoughts on this.

On 5/31/06, Bèr Kessels <ber at webschuur.com> wrote:
>
> Op woensdag 31 mei 2006 17:16, schreef Greg Knaddison - GVS:
> > I'm not sure there is a really great solution - especially not for the
> > hobbyist who doesn't want to learn the shell but does want to use 3rd
> > party modules.
>
> My philosophy is: "Once you have proper commandline tools, or proper
> libraries, interfaces will grow around them".
>
> An interface in this particular Drupal case could be a plugin for plesk,
> or a
> one-ring-to-rule-them-all-drupal module (running off a special apache on a
> special port) that allows you to install modules on a huge flock of sites.
> Or
> a YaST module that allows you to install modules on your local server. Or
> apt-get/apt-reconfigure etc.  And so on.
>
> Imagine being able to fire "adept", the Ubuntu installer: select Drupal,
> answer a range of questions in an ubuntu-configuration-wizard-thing, and
> then
> find yourself with a running, customised Drupal site!
>
> In the end that is far better for that hobbyist than any HTML installer
> built
> into drupal can ever be. The more because letting your PHP app write its
> own
> PHP (which is what webbased installers do) is considered extremely unsafe,
> and therefore dont work on a lot of hosting environments. (And IMO should
> work on even less environments :) )
>
> Bèr
>
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