Stimulating built-in Drupal 8 core.

[Corvalan]

I like to understand more and possibly stimulate the ability of including Drupal 8 core as built in platform. I read:

Drupal 8 support for custom platforms in the ~/static directory tree has been added, along with Drush 8, in the BOA-3.0.0 release. Note: BOA will not include built-in Drupal 8 platforms until Drupal 8 will support symlinks in the codebase, like all previous core versions.

Can you please indicate what Drupal.org issues are most relevant to stimulate in this context. (I may have identified one but want to be sure this post references only relevent links)

And what else is important for us to know related to this issue since it appears to be stagnated for long.

[omega8cc]

There’s no benefit in installing built-in basic Drupal 8 platforms because they cannot use symlinked core, so you don’t save any space and it’s basically like installing custom platform in the ~/static tree. Effectively there’s little sense in pre-installing the basic Drupal 8 platforms, because it’s too easy to install one on your own, whereas usually you rarely can use vanilla D8 for anything useful, you will need to extend it with Composer probably, so having it in ~/static as custom platform gives you full access to the codebase, unlike the built in platforms where you have an access only to “sites” directory, which is absolutely useless from the customization perspective.

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[Corvalan]

Okay, understood. Thanks