Playing with Drush Make

Sat, 11/21/2009 - 18:10 — Robert Douglass

Drush and Drush Make belong in every Drupal developer's toolkit. This is a make file that will build the following:

Drupal 6.14 (or latest)
ApacheSolr module
SolrPhpClient hosted on code.google.com
Acquia Connector module (from Drupal.org)
Acquia Search module (from Acquia's svn repository)

This demonstrates four different methods for downloading code, from three different sources.

To execute, install Drush, install Drush Make, then run the attached file like this:

drush make search.make

To specify an output directory, add the path as an extra parameter:

drush make search.make /var/log/www

To see what's going on, use the -v flag for verbose output:

drush -v make search.make

Here's the content of the make file:


core = "6.x" 

projects[] = "drupal" 

projects[] = "acquia_connector"

projects[apachesolr][download][type] = "cvs"
projects[apachesolr][download][module] = "contributions/modules/apachesolr"
projects[apachesolr][download][revision] = "DRUPAL-6--2"

projects[acquia_search][type] = "module"
projects[acquia_search][download][type] = "svn"
projects[acquia_search][download][url] = "https://svn.acquia.com/drupal/branches/1.x-6.x/modules/acquia/acquia_search/"

libraries[SolrPhpClient][download][type] = "get"
libraries[SolrPhpClient][download][url] = "http://solr-php-client.googlecode.com/files/SolrPhpClient.r22.2009-11-09.tgz"
libraries[SolrPhpClient][destination] = "modules/apachesolr"

Attachment	Size
search.make	692 bytes

Comments

Sat, 11/21/2009 - 20:26 — dmitrig01 (not verified)

Out of curiosity, how

Out of curiosity, how hard/easy to use was drush_make? How could it be made better?

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 02:13 — Robert Douglass

Documentation needs love

It's pretty easy, all things considered. There's a little fuzziness in some of the syntax that makes it opaque. For example:

$projects[] = cck;
$projects[cck] = 2.4;
$projects[cck][version] = 2.4;
projects[cck][download][revision] = DRUPAL-6--2-4

That aspect could be improved. Plus the missing features (translations, recursions into modules and themes...) - those are the details that will make it revolutionary.

Plus we have to teach module maintainers how do best handle external libraries so that drush make can always get them.

Work to be done, but definitely the right direction. Thanks Dmitri!

-Rob

Fri, 12/11/2009 - 14:10 — Eliza Samotna (not verified)

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 22:23 — moshe weitzman (not verified)

drush comes with

drush comes with instructions about how to get up and running on windows. it isn't that hard.

there may be a few pieces of drush_make that are untsted on windows but drush itself works well.

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 18:42 — Doug (not verified)

Then what?

Could you comment on how much manual configuring needs to be done to get ApacheSolr working after doing the make in this way?

Thanks!

Sat, 11/28/2009 - 21:58 — Robert Douglass

You still need a Solr server

which is described here: http://jamonation.com/node/856

But at least Drush Make relieves you of the external dependency on the PHP side.

-Rob

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