[development] Can I move the sites and profiles directories?

[Moshe Weitzman]

one more example - see the svn repository which advantagelabs makes 
available to the world. it has all core drupal versions and all of the 
top contributed modules. it is a real nice service. - 
http://svn.advantagelabs.com

Dave Cohen wrote:
> I'd like to separate my work from core Drupal.  As of 5.x, Drupal supports the 
> sites/all directory, where I can put my modules and themes.  And that's a 
> great step in the right direction.
> 
> However, to make my source code more manageable, I'd like my sites and 
> profiles to be outside the Drupal directory.  Without going into too much 
> detail, this will allow me to manage my code with svn's externals property.
> 
> So today my directory structure looks something like this:
> 
> www/drupal-5.1/index.php
> www/drupal-5.1/sites/
> www/drupal-5.1/profiles/
> www/drupal-5.1/[lots of other things]
> 
> And what I'd like is something like:
> 
> www/drupal-5.1/index.php
> www/sites/
> www/profiles/
> www/drupal-5.1/[lots of other things]
> 
> The trick then would be to get Drupal to find my sites and profiles 
> directories.  Is my only option to hack core?  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Note that I don't want to set up symbolic links from www/drupal-5.1/sites to 
> my sites directories.  I have my code (including the drupal core I am using) 
> in subversion, and I'd like to checkout out an entire site in a single step.  
> Having to replace Drupal's sites and profiles directories with symbolic links 
> is an extra step I'd like to avoid. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> -Dave