Are there any plans or is someone already working on it - to integrate a installation profile builder into project module or an extra module? Today it's toooooo much and hard hand work for new users to use a installation profile.

They must download the profile, translations, drupal core, drupal module, drupal themes... copy all together in the correct structure and than they are able to use this installation profile... i expect that only experienced people are able to get this working! I found a module named package_builder (http://drupal.org/project/package_builder) that helps here, but is far from perfect and cannot automatically build packages at night.

I think the package should be updated by a job - like a DEV version - if new versions of core, modules, themes and translations are available. This make sure you always get the most recent installation profile. Additional it should be possible to add custom files like translations only existing on a l10n_server.

This would be a great and helpful addition to project module if done as submodule.

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aclight’s picture

aclight commented
Status: Active » Postponed

I've heard discussion of something like this before, but I don't recall seeing any issue for it, though I'd kind of be surprised if there wasn't one already somewhere on d.o.

I think this would be a very nice feature to have, but it would also be quite complicated to do. One problem is that we don't have a dependency system in place that can have one module depend on a specific *version* of another module. For modules where there are two different major versions with different APIs (eg. the Image module), things are going to get tricky.

In any case, I don't believe that this feature belongs in the project module. It's something that would have limited use outside of d.o (at least without rewriting major parts of the module), and I think it's a different enough module that it should sit somewhere else. With that being said, I don't really know where to move the issue. I'm marking this issue as postponed for now.

I've heard dww talk of this kind of feature before--perhaps he has a better idea of whether anyone is working on something like this and/or what a good place to discuss this would be.

hass’s picture

hass commented

This should be part of the release process and therefor project is the best. I really hope we don't need to wait for D7 what I've read about .info files for installation profiles in http://groups.drupal.org/distributions.

hass’s picture

hass commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)