Tonight I attended a Vancouver Drupal meeting in which Bryght founder Boris Mann talked about Drupal install profiles (no, he wasn’t dressed like a pirate at the time).

Install profiles are basically “recipes” for Drupal installations. They detail what modules should be enabled and how they, and the system, should be configured. Install profiles are necessary because Drupal has hundreds of modules. The Drupal culture’s ideal is that a module should act as a flexible component: most useful when interacting with other modules. Because of this, Drupal’s modules can be combined to create complex, varied web applications.

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