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Idea #8: Make IdeaTorrent standalone

Written by Caglow the 16 May 09 at 21:23. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I'd like for IdeaTorrent to become a standalone script which does not require anything else to run. This might take some time, yes, but I think it would expand the userbase exponentially once done.

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andrew.s wrote on the 31 Jul 09 at 05:14

I don't see why it needs to be part of drupal, as a standalone item it can do much better as there is no drupal requirement.

Caglow wrote on the 21 Aug 09 at 02:37

Agree...if it wasn't part of Drupal, I'd be using it by now.

Chris wrote on the 29 Sep 09 at 20:47

I am confused why Drupal is a blocker? Is it that you want to incorporate it into your own code? Drupal is very easy to set up and maintain and is becoming more and more like a framework than a CMS. I don't think ideatorrent would have been made at all if it was made from scratch because it would be much more work. Being able to leverage the existing code from Drupal and all it's modules is what made ideatorrent possible.

Caglow wrote on the 1 Nov 09 at 18:18

Well, the problem is, I don't use Drupal. My site runs on a different platform. Installing Drupal just to install IdeaTorrent seems a bit weird considering that I wouldn't be using anything else in Drupal. To me, Drupal is just....big. And since only the core of it is being used, I don't think it should be too hard to just extract that and make it run without Drupal like those other suggestions say. Currently, I'm running it as I described before but I think it would be nice to cut down the size of the files by a LOT. I can see how Drupal helped with the creation of IdeaTorrent but usually, after a while, on projects like Aptana Studio (created from Eclipse), they usually have 2 different releases, one as a plugin, and one as a separate, standalone release. Doing so, I would expect many more people to use the script.

Caglow wrote on the 1 Nov 09 at 18:21

To clarify, I've installed Drupal between the time of the previous post and now.

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