Partial Install Profiles
Agaric wants configuration profiles, that potentially can be combined, as well as applied later than the original installation.
And it seems like we can have it!
- ben
I know I should do more reading and trying before asking, but are partial install profiles possible? Can (parts of) install profiles be used after a site is already up and running? Should this use of canned configuration be tried?
To take an easier-seeming and probably useful case, how difficult would it be to adapt the profile mechanism and a profile itself in order to make adding wiki functionality to a site a matter of a few steps.
I'm pretty sure the code can be adapted, in theory anyhow, so I'm looking for feedback on the desirability as much as the feasibility of just the bare beginnings of mix-and-match easy-bake site recipes.
Thanks for humoring me!
ben, Agaric Design Collective
Mostly yes. The code inside the hook_profile_final should run anywhere anytime for example, and that's most of the work.
Starting about four or five minutes from the end of Lullabot podcast 62, the guests Merlin Mann (43 Folders), Jon Armstrong (Dooce), Ben Durbin (Drupal guru) talk about this same idea-- you choose the functionality you want, at the beginning and at any time, and a wizard guides you through installing it and the modules you need.
@TODO- grab an audio clip for the someday Agaric best-of-the-Drupal remix.