I thought of this while filing #2384...
I was thinking something like project_get_info($project_name, $property = NULL) that would auto-detect project type (from the .info file or the system table?). If $property is omitted, then an array of all the project info would be returned (keyed by property), else the specific property defined in $property. This would allow us to get a specific project property like this:
$human_readable_name = project_get_info('devel', 'name');
...instead of this:
$module_info = system_get_info('module', 'devel');
$human_readable_name = $module_info['name'];
...while still being able to do things like this:
$module_info = project_get_info('devel');
$human_readable_name = $module_info['name'];
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I think this is the best gift you can give designers—just design, create a new distribution, and get creative with Backdrop.
Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop
@yorkshirepudding thank you for the additional info on improving discoverability and a handy way to keep a list of projects for reuse.
Why not add a Github star?
It is a good point @izmeez and when I was researching repo discoverability I found that GitHub search does prioritise matches with more stars. This is what I was researching for:...
Why not add a Github star?