That's a good article. I suspect his approach worked because he was already intimately familiar with the site. My task would be to go into a customer's site that I haven't even seen yet, let alone explored internally.
However, the question is what to say to the customer, not how to do it. Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. ________________________________ From: Randy Fay <ra...@randyfay.com> To: development@drupal.org Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 4:45:55 PM Subject: Re: [development] Upgrading Drupal You have to upgrade from the last Drupal 5 to the last Drupal 6 and then to Drupal 7. Quicksketch posted an alternate approach: http://quicksketch.org/node/5739 -Randy On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, nan wich <nan_w...@bellsouth.net> wrote: I suspect I know the answer but am looking for reasons to convince a potential customer. The question is: Can you jump from Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 in one fell swoop? I see upgrading contribs as one of the biggest obstacles with API changes being the next one in line (assuming there is site-specific custom code). > >Nancy >Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. -- Randy Fay Drupal Module and Site Development ra...@randyfay.com +1 970.462.7450