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After lots of work, doing tests and fixing bugs, a beta version of drool has been released for developers and testers.

Drool, which was demonstrated last year at DrupalCon in Barcelona, is a command-line tool that automates the mundane tasks of managing Drupal Web sites on a server and also offers a few more novel features. It can create new sites, install modules and themes directly from drupal.org, and clone one Drupal site to another. It helps you rapidly design themes by automatically skinning images (i.e. chopping and slicing them up for CSS scaling) onto regions of a theme.

For more details see the project page.

Thank you,

Nick Blundell (www.illuminateict.org.uk, www.nickblundell.org.uk)

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newms commented

drool looks pretty impressive. I'll give it a try when I get some time.

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kbahey commented

Why not apply for a CVS account and contribute it as a project?

More people will use it and report bugs and patches that way.
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themegarden.org commented

Agree with kbahey, it would be nice to commit that project to drupal.org.

Also, better documentation could be nice.

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jpoesen commented

I saw this tool in action at DrupalconBarcelona. Pretty damn impressive. Especially the automatic chopping and slicing is an approach I'd never seen before. Nick was nice enough to run us through some of the code behind it back in the hotel. Having done some image manipulation code myself a while back, I can really appreciate the amount of work and dedication that went into this tool.

I'm looking into drool at the moment as a backup/restore/clone/prototype-setup solution. We'll see how that turns out.

Great show, Nick!

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tjholowaychuk commented

very interesting concept! Im going to test it out right away. Although I have to complain about the skinning functionality which is certainly interesting but I dont find it very practical, a good themer can whip up the CSS for average designs in around an hour or two of work and theming is certainly an aspect where extra effort and time pays off.

Either way good job and im looking forward to seeing the other capabilities that drool has / will have
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mshepherd commented

Just a note for the interested. I worked on drool with Nick (I presented with him in Barcelona) and it certainly wasn't developed to be a replacement for a good themer. It's a pretty general productivity aid for those who want to (among MANY other things) create simple themes for Drupal. It's aimed at people with no php experience, no drupal theming experience but who are competent to put together a simple site design. Myself and Nick work with a large number of charities and voluntary sector organisations and in order to keep our prices low, we need to be able to develop sites quickly. With drool, we can clone a template site and apply a skin to the drool theme. We have no more than a day to spend on the whole process, so it has to be quick!

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Frando commented

Interesting, never heard of this before. Source code seems to be here, for the interested: http://trac.nickblundell.org.uk/browser/projects/drool/trunk/drool/.
Apparently written in Python, so no way to just integrate with drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush).