Drupal Installer

Abstract

This software is a plugin/installer for existing software. Composer (https://getcomposer.org) is a dependency manager for PHP. Installer plugins can be created through Composer's plugin API (https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/custominstallers. md) allowing certain types of packages to be automatically installed to specific paths. Plugins like this exist for several different frameworks: https://packagist.org/search/?q=installer&type=composer-plugin This software is a plugin to install Drupal modules (https://www.drupal.org/). Drupal has begun supporting Composer as a means of installing and maintaining modules, but requires specific paths for it's various components. These paths can be manually specified in the "composer.json" file, or can be automatically determined with a plugin. Currently an installer plugin does not exist for Drupal.