Description of the need We have this problem on Pantheon with the installer module: If the site is not in SFTP mode, then the installer can't install.
We know that the installer can't install, so when we try to install something, we throw a nice error saying that there's a permissions issue.
Proposed solution Why don't we use this check as a dependency for the installer module? If you can't write modules to your filesystem, then you can't use this module.
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@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?
Do you have a separate development environment and transfer database and config between sites?
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