Drupal package management

Last modified: October 25, 2005 - 10:19

You can walk through the presentation and see my post factum notes at my blog post

Outline of presentation

trying to make sence of dependencies and modules

Contents
- Current status
- Dependencies
- Installation strategies
Current status
- packages
  - core
  - modules
  - theme engines
  - themes
- locations
  - core
  - sites
  - module directories
  - theme directories

Dependencies

modules
themes - theme engines

Packages

concepts
metadata
virtual packages
bundles/distributions

Installation and upgrade strategies

direct web-based, i.e. upload - configure
indirect web-based, i.e. via a controller ala fantastico
staged - local configure, upload, remote configure

Wrapping up

code status
- dependency.inc
- drpkg
Q&A

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