[development] Restructure Core Module Support [ was: Time to remove poll module from core]

[Larry Garfield]

This echos a post I made on this list a few months ago as well, during the
last time we discussed trimming core.  I used the term "endorsed modules",
but same idea.

Views and flexinode/cck are far more useful in core than, say, blogapi. 
I'm not even entirely sure what that does. :-)

One proposal that had been floated for the "1st tier" modules (whatever
they're called) was automatic downloading.  Core is/should be small, but
people need to be able to get the functionality they want quickly and
easily.  Being able to download and install a stable module from within
the UI would make that much easier, as well as not require separate
download tarballs for each "distribution profile".

I freely confess to not knowing all that would need to go into this
drupal-get module, though.  I vaguely recall someone mentioning that they
were doing something along these lines.  If that's you, what were you
doing?

-- 
Larry Garfield

On Mon, May 1, 2006 2:40 pm, Jeff Eaton said:
>> =>  Core should be core required files and code only.  For
>> the rest of this
>> posting, I will call these the "framework files" or just
>> "framework," but the
>> name is mostly not important to me.  It's just for clarity.
>>
>> =>  There should be a group of the most useful, best coded
>> modules which are
>> maintained and supported like the core itself.  For the rest
>> of this posting,
>> I will call these the "core modules"
>
>
> This is something that I've suggested before -- some things, like
> node.module and so on, are obviously always going to be a part of the
> "framework files". This meshes very well, IMO, with Robert's vision of
> 'targeted distributions.'
>
> I think providing the current mix of Drupal core modules as a 'Classic
> Drupal' distro, or something like that, would be a fine way to let
> people keep on going as they have been. Those who want something else
> can get framework + a distro, or framework + a custom mix of modules and
> themes, etc.
>
> --Jeff
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