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Pressflow is a performance-tuned, MySql-specific distribution of Drupal maintained by Four Kitchens. Drush Make is a way of automatically compiling the files needed to build a big Drupal site.

I posted this issue on Pressflow's Launchpad queue (after raising the question with their team at D4D):

I'm using Drush Make to build my sites and I'd like Pressflow to be the default core. It's easy to put projects[] = drupal in the make file and it gets the latest 6.x from drupal.org. But how do I get the latest Pressflow? Currently I have:

projects[drupal][download][url] = "http://launchpad.net/pressflow/6.x/6.16.77/+download/pressflow-6.16.77.tar.gz"
projects[drupal][download][type] = "get"

For every Pressflow upgrade, I have to change the path there manually, which mostly defeats the purpose of Drush Make (and is a barrier to using Pressflow). It would be great if I could simply put in http://launchpad.net/pressflow/6.x/6.x-latest.tar.gz and it would always fetch the latest version. Or better yet, have projects[] = pressflow instead of "drupal," but I don't want to press my luck...

Thank you!

David Strauss (creator of Pressflow) replied:

Two options:

* Use Drush Make's support for Bazaar, and use lp:pressflow
* Use this URL to our build server: http://files.pressflow.org/pressflow-6-current.tar.gz

Nice!