installer

I'd like to share some thoughts on composer installers that we can use for supporting setting up a Drupal project with composer. I'd like to know about your assumptions and how we may be able to build common installer, that we can use maybe as a standard in the future.

My thoughts are that the new Quickstart 3.0 should eventually:

1) support the semi-automatic download of a number of demonstration websites to help learn Drupal (synergy with Drupal Ladder?);
2) provide a better mechanism than the existing Modules installation page for locating a desired module tar.gz link;
3) provide some assistance with upgrading the Drupal core by providing guidance on database backup and migrate;
4) support the concept of optional tool sets to keep the initial download smaller and allow staged learning of tools.

I created a module installer... It is raw. But it's a start. I learned some Joomla a few days ago, and They have a module installer that does all the work for you. So here is my Drupal version. Unfortunately I just started using Drupal yesterday so I can't give it all the bells and whistles yet.

This installer makes a few assumptions:
1. GZIP lib is installed on server.
2. All modules will be installed in sites/all/modules

The installer will upload the tar.gz to the directory and automatically unzip it.

Was watching some drupal vids in preparation for my upcoming install and i saw this video and a stack installer for drupal. It actually an installer for drupal with most useful addons pre-installed. It also installs MySQL, PHP, Apache and PHPMyAdmin as well. Here is the video:

http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/143