Drupal 8

[Shawn Iwinski]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8.  There is
> > still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get
> the
> > maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved.
>
> I'm willing to help out a bit, as I maintain a half-dozen or so
> drupal7 packages in Fedora.
>

Awesome!


> Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some
> > additional features:
> > * provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files
> > * virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will
> > especially help with the requiring of sub-modules
> > * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this
> > allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any
> > sub-module(s) that are included
> > * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files'
> "dependencies[]"
> > entries) -- this will help simplify spec files
> > * formalized packaging guidelines
>
> I was thinking about this just yesterday, as it was taking me a while
> to track down a bunch of sub-modules and which packages were providing
> them.  I think virtual provides for sub-modules is something we could
> really use -- and the rest would be fantastic, if we can make it work
> automagically.
>

Automagically is what I am going for.  For example, here are core's
auto-provides: http://pastebin.com/X86AsgVM


> Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not be
> > ready for Fedora for a good while.  I am doing all of my work out of
> GitHub.
> > If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the links
> > below:
> >
> > Specs and issues: https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms
> > Dev repos: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/
> > Draft packaging guidelines:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8
>
> I added a couple of lines to the packaging guidelines around Drupal
> libraries.  We may also want to revisit the latest proposed JavaScript
> packaging guidelines and make sure that all the new Drupal 8 packages
> follow them.
>

Thanks!  Libraries were one of those things I knew we needed to look into.

Yes, we definitely need to look into the latest JavaScript packaging
guidelines.  Speaking of that, I only see mention of using Apache HTTPD
specifically (if I'm looking at the correct draft).  I wonder if there will
be a notion of "any" web server for packages and not tied specifically to
Apache -- for example, a package like dojo would provide the source itself
while sub-packages like dojo-httpd and dojo-nginx would provide specific
web server requires and configs.  I know Remi has done this for at least
one package [1][2].  I was thinking we may want to do the same type thing
for Drupal 8 for httpd and nginx.

[1]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2013-January/008863.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895592


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