Dear Drupal,

Could there be a different approach to installation, maintenance and the whole module system?

What I mean is this:

1. Could the installation work without the need to edit files and go to the console?
It's the following steps which, if possible to change, would make life easier and Drupal more widespread and perhaps more popular.

2. CREATE THE DRUPAL DATABASE
3. LOAD THE DRUPAL DATABASE SCHEME
4. CONNECTING DRUPAL
6. CRON TASKS

(I used to flirt with the idea of installing Typo3 - I gave up - but its installer - as far as I remember, did most of the things from a set of installation pages... back then)

2. Could the maintenance (eg. upgrading) of Drupal be made easier? By that I mean - there is a growing tendency to adapt things so that their upgrading is as seemless as possible and to make it possible to update straight from the programme, look for newer versions, etc. A Firefox approach could be also applied to modules, which are the subject of my third suggestion:

3. Drupal has a great set of modules, core and non-core, relatively easy to install and relatively unproblematic.

a) Could there be a possibility to install modules from Drupal itself by the site admin? This could be perhaps a functionality which itself could be accomplished by a module - a module for easier installation of modules - a Meta-Module...

b) Could there be an option to choose a completely different approach to module choice?
By this I mean:

EITHER a standard installation (or a Drupal Live CD...) containing all core and non-core modules, and the admin chooses afterwards which modules should stay and which would be deleted

OR some kind of optional package that people could download and easily add to the standard installation (ie. install more than ONE module in one go, install all modules - and then delete from inside Drupal those undesired ones - incl. tables).

Thanks for your patience and for a great CMS

Roman

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elv commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

1. is "fixed" by the new installer (except the database creation which is by design I think)
2. and 3. are "by design" or "won't fix", as if I remember correctly downloading modules and updates from a Drupal install has been discussed and considered dangerous.

So I set this nice mix of issues to "closed" :)

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