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hi
follow-up question to https://drupal.org/node/2093513#comment-7879395
will Aegir be supporting Backdrop CMS?
I hear on the Drupalvine that a large closed-source hosting platform as service provider based in the Bay Area is running Backdrop on its servers now
so, wassup with Aegir and BackdropCMS?
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#9 | Welcome to backdrop1.local_.png | 66.96 KB | ergonlogic |
#8 | backdrop-drush6_support.patch | 923 bytes | ergonlogic |
#8 | provision-backdrop_support-2094221-8.patch | 570 bytes | ergonlogic |
Comments
Comment #1
ergonlogic+1
Comment #2
ergonlogicRecently on IRC:
Comment #3
omega8cc CreditAttribution: omega8cc commentedOK. So with Aegir project lead blessing we seem to have consensus that Aegir intends to support Backdrop CMS, no matter if Drush devs will have similar consensus or not. It seems that if there will be no official support, there will be Drush fork maintained - see: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/47
Comment #4
ergonlogicI just asked the Drush maintainers straight-out for their opinion on supporting Backdrop in https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/issues/141
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anarcat CreditAttribution: anarcat commentedin case it wasn't clear from the irc log: +1
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niccolox CreditAttribution: niccolox commentedan anonymous source close to the Pentagon(aka Pantheon) told me they have successfully tested hosting BackdropCMS and since their workflow is all about GIT and Drush I would expect that might be a place to acquire resources also
Comment #7
anarcat CreditAttribution: anarcat commentedi also heard at drupalcon that pantheon successfully provision backdropcms.
Comment #8
ergonlogicOut-of-the-box Backdrop won't install on Aegir. Most of the reason for this is the Drupal 8 style file layout, putting everything in core/, but having mostly Drupal 7 code. To get Drush to recognize it as Drupal 7, and Aegir to install it, I created a few symlinks:
ln -s core/includes .
ln -s core/modules .
ln -s core/misc .
... and then changed the version string from 8.x to 7.x.
I also had to comment-out an include from provision's install_7.inc, since includes/entity.inc has gone away. This obviously isn't the right way to go here, assuming it's still required for D7 installs. But we could easily enough add another symlink to the file containing the required code. I just didn't bother to figure out what it is yet :p
Relevant patches attached for experimentation.
Comment #9
ergonlogicFor the sake of posterity, here's a screenshot of the first documented Backdrop install in Aegir :)
Comment #10
niccolox CreditAttribution: niccolox commentedAwesome. As an aside. The Flat UI Radix theme has been Twigified thanks to Forest Mar and now has a D8 branch
Comment #11
niccolox CreditAttribution: niccolox commentedBtw. Will that backdrop aegir hack work for d8?
Comment #12
helmo CreditAttribution: helmo commented@niccolo: Are you looking for #1194602: [meta] Support the hosting of Drupal 8 sites