exporting

As we all know, one of Drupal's major shortcomings is exporting configuration. I believe that the source of this problem is that there is no standard way to store and retrieve settings. Most modules use variable_get and variable_set. The problem with this is that there is no association between a variable and a module.

I propose an api for saving and retrieving settings. I am currently working on a settings module as a proof of concept.

Here is a glimpse of the current api: