[development] Install profiles tutorial for Drupal 4.7, Friday 8AM PST

[Jenny Hsueh]

Ber, I agree with your rationale of why the bottom up approach is 
important, be that the sympal solution or something else,  as i think it 
lays the foundation of things like civicspace installer which I will 
call it "drupal  module configurator" if I'm not mistaken  its main purpose.

Given drupal's flexibility which can suit many different uses, I think 
it is wise to focus our energy on building those infrastructures and to 
expose the APIs at different layers, as we will never be able to satisfy 
all "end-users" so providing the tools to enable the middle-tier, who 
are the larger drupal community other than the regular drupal 
contributors,  to build drupal value-added services/packages for the 
real end users seems a way to expand drupal adoptions .

Jenny


Bèr Kessels wrote:

>Op zondag 11 juni 2006 17:06, schreef Jenny Hsueh:
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>>I wonder, Ber - is your sympal script a starting point to
>>focus on the "deployment" aspect that we can combine the energy with
>>civicspace install
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>You state it correct: I beleive we should focus on the underlying part first. 
>The underlying part being a set of Apis and scripts to install a site, or 
>more then one site. You call that deployment. 
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>If you want more detail on why and how read on. Else: exit; :)
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