Installation profiles

Agaric (or one of us, at least) is obsessed by the idea of modular installation profiles.

It's just the way Drupal should be.

Our Agaric Starter Profile was a hacky start at that, and has either been delisted from Drupal.org or we never made a proper release (either way, attention to it has suffered and we can't complain). More time than I had went into trying to create separate include files that could be combined in different ways to serve as a set of varying profiles that could be chosen.

The purpose of posting the Agaric Design Collective install profile: to make people realize "hey, if they can do it, I can do it".

An important thing to remember when making or using an install profile is that it replaces Drupal's default install profile, and that this profile actually does something. For instance, it creates the 'page' and 'story' content types. So if you want either of these automatically set up in your new site, your custom install profile needs to create them.

Agaric Design Collective Starter Profile for Drupal installation complete

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?