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Drupal Voices 62: Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions

  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Drupal Voices 62: Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions
  • Album: Drupal Voices
  • Year: 2009
  • Length: 12:31 minutes (11.5 MB)
  • Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Adrian Rossouw has been a long-time contributor to the Drupal project and even claims the Drupal.org user id of 1337. He was a co-founder of Bryght, and helped develop the Hostmaster system for deploying sites. That has since evolved into the Aegir system as well as the command-line toolkit of drush.

These are some of the components behind Adrian's vision and the larger Smallcore movement to make Drupal distributions work easier and more widely used in the Drupal community. Adrian also talks about the future of Drupal distributions and what it means in Drupal 7 to have installation profiles be treated as modules that came out a series of issues linked from the following issue: Fix some conceptual problems with install profiles and make them actually usable

Adrian also talks about how this will tie into apt-get and how piecing together Drupal websites is moving towards the same ways that people manage Linux distributions.

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Another project to watch out for is drush_make

The approach discussed in the interview was to automatically detect as much as possible, whereas drush_make lets you explicitly state the individual components of your application/ profile build in the .info format that drupal uses.

this gives you a lot of the functionality that an apt-get like system for Drupal would give you, but it works _TODAY_