[Radiant] Fails when using Gallery in brand new Radiant setup

[Thomas Watson Steen]

On 19/05/2008, at 17.29, Sean Cribbs wrote:
> It's generally not a good idea to install extensions until you have  
> bootstrapped your database.

Usually I would agree with you on this, but in this case I've set it  
all up locally in my development environment. Now I want to put the  
site online. It's in Subversion and I'm deploying with Capistrano to  
the production server. Because I've been using it locally to set  
everything up, all the extensions and plugins are already in the  
Subversion repository. So uninstalling the extensions just to get it  
up and running sounds like the wrong way to solve this.

If multiple developers are working on the same project, new  
developers should be able to join - also after extensions have been  
installed and comitted to the source repository.

> That said, maybe the Gallery extension could avoid loading that  
> model until it's absolutely needed?

Yes that is one solution. But what about building a safety valve into  
Radiant it self: Do not load any extensions unless the database have  
been bootstrapped?

/watson