History: TikiInstallFeatureDev

For the moment this module is not yet planned, but here are few musings on the whole idea

Reasons to have this module/feature

(I still do not know the difference in tiki-speak when you are used in your dayjob to call it a module, but ... whatever 😉)

Tiki is growing with every release. More and more features and modules are being added and so the codebase keeps on growing as well.

The profiles that are currently under development are a great way to aleviate the admin's job from setting all the options for the features he/she wants to have on his/her site(s).

However, this is not enough for all ...

Not everybody needs 500+ avatar images (since they do not use the forums), "N" languages or "M" different styles.

And then I am not speaking of the amount of code that remains unused in your htdocs or public_html or similar directories and just sits there, taking up (precious hosting space).

There are quite a few users out there that have a tiki site on a free hosting site and/or a small budget hosting. I'm speaking of the <= 100 MB hosting sites. Apart from the fact that they have a MB quota, they often have a file quota as well. For them, current incarnations of tiki are becoming unviable, since a release from the 1.7.3 tarball is taking up a lot of space (3000+ files and 24MB). Add to that session files and cached templates and you have little room left for anything else on their site.

Proposed solution