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The mdeploy.php standalone script (used to download and unzip plugins into the dirroot) and the \core\update\deployer class (as a communication bridge between the core and the mdeploy.php) was originally designed and implemented with the assumption that it would be eventually used for updating the Moodle core itself, too. Therefore it was written as standalone utility without dependency on the Moodle core libraries. However, it never happened and there is no real demand for that. So now there is no need to have and maintain a completely parallel solution for common things like fetching and unzipping plugin ZIPs. Additional reasoning for mdeploy.php was that the core is not very reliable during the core upgrade and we could run into various troubles. This does not seem to be that bad. We rely on a lot of core functionality (such as output rendering, DB access etc) and plugins deployment seems to work well (and better) with common core libraries. So long mdeploy, and thanks for all the hard work you did for us.
QUICK INSTALL ============= For the impatient, here is a basic outline of the installation process, which normally takes me only a few minutes: 1) Move the Moodle files into your web directory. 2) Create a single database for Moodle to store all its tables in (or choose an existing database). 3) Visit your Moodle site with a browser, you should be taken to the install.php script, which will lead you through creating a config.php file and then setting up Moodle, creating an admin account etc. 4) Set up a cron task to call the file admin/cron.php every five minutes or so. For more information, see the INSTALL DOCUMENTATION: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle Good luck and have fun! Martin Dougiamas, Lead Developer