Distributions on Drupal.org
posted on 15 Mar 12
You may not have noticed, but Drupal.org has rolled out full distribution packaging support on Install profile project pages. What this means is that now we can host complete distro downloads (including 3rd party libraries) directly on Drupal.org. No longer do we have to download Drupal core, download a Profile, download all required contrib modules and libraries (or use Drush Make like a sane individual to manage all of that). At this point you might be saying, "Big deal, so now there is an archive on Drupal.org." At first glance it might seem that way, but what we have effectively done is bring it all back to Drupal.org.