Posted by barobba on August 4, 2011 at 1:39am
This isn't a module, ... but it's close (like Drush isn't a module). There are a lot of tools like Drush, for quickly configuring new Drupal installations. Surely, there is a tool for combining a set of modules into one downloadable file.
Then, for windows users (where I find myself sometimes) I suppose an alternative would be to access one of my Linux servers... run a Drush + shell script that does the same thing, and then transfer the resulting file from there.
If someone put this capability together in a Web page, it might be pretty useful. I bet someone already has. Does anyone know?
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Drush Make
If I'm understanding you right, this is exactly what Drush Make does.
Installation Profiles
Developing installation profiles
It's not 100% automated, but once you build it, you've got a base setup you can work from. We have a base installation running on our dev box, and keep it updated in SVN. When we fire up a new project, all we have to do is export the full installation with profile, point it at an empty database, and away we go...
If I remember correctly, there's only a handful of hooks you have to implement, and just the initial download of modules to populate your installation. Not a lot of effort, but the gains can be tremendous.
Those are both good ideas,
Those are both good ideas, with pros and cons. On some occasions, working on a D6 site in WAMP ... so Drush is out in that case (normally I work in LAMP), I would just like to get one compressed file of the modules I want to drop into the "all/modules" folder.
It sounds like one option is to use Drush Make, compress the resulting folders, and then FTP them to the WAMP system.
Drush Make + Installation Profile
If you put a Drush Make file in an installation profile hosted on Drupal.org, the files get automatically packaged up in a single download for you. See:
http://drupal.org/node/1022020
That includes Drupal core along with all the modules. You can always just delete core after download if you really don't want it.
Cool. That's exactly what I
Cool. That's exactly what I mean. Does that work for D6 as well?