(Not sure if I should partake in a hijacked thread) I've done one site so far in D7 and one module upgrade and I agree it is good, however I do think that it is riddled with lots of small bugs which prevent more complex drupal magic. For instance in the module upgrade I did, I found that the expanded tick box in the custom menu configuration form is meaningless. In D6, if you didn't tick this box, you still got an expanded active trail. In D7 this simply does not happen so a menu is only expanded when that box is ticked. I looked through the code and fixing this is going to mean some not so small changes but I am sure they will get there. I got the impression that either there has been too much tinkering going on or they released D7 prematurely.
I wouldn't recommend using D7 except for basic sites at this point for which D7 is a dream. The backend reminds me of WordPress a little dare I say. They have certainly had a user-friendly guru work on that part of it. On Feb 21, 12:41 pm, Chris Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > I have kicked off a couple of projects recently on D7 and am loving > working with it over D6. > > Admin UI is a big plus (hugely improved due to the great work on > d7ux[1]) but for developers there are lots of under-the-hood > improvements as well. > > Module-wise, yes I've hit a number of modules for D6 which hadn't been > released or aren't prime-time ready for D7 yet. A good opportunity to > help get some of them ported (I'll admit a minor addiction to that > sort of thing) and also a great indicator of which modules are the > ones you *want* to be using. > > So - my advice would be to try D7 initially for your project, then > fall back to D6 if you find some killer feature which D6 has and D7 > doesn't (and you can't, or won't, contribute to getting that feature > into D7). > > This helps you (in a year's time you're more likely to be running the > current Drupal version) and it helps the community you're pitching > your lot in with, which in turn helps ... you! > > [1]http://www.d7ux.org/ > > On Feb 21, 11:51 am, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Warwick, > > > I'm not familiar with the intricacies between D6 and D7, but I did note > > that a (long overdue) admin UI rewrite is / was a big part of the version > > release. > > > Part of the beauty of Drupal is the massive dev community and Drupal's > > modular structure. You'll literally find a module for anything except real > > custom / edge case requirements - even then using hooks it's simple to > > override module functions to get the functionality you need. > > > I'd stick with 6 for now - there is a dev jump in terms of API changes > > between version releases but I know that tools (and modules!) have been > > created to ease the pain and automate module conversion. > > > Regards, > > Paul -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
