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holding off on Drupal 5...for a little while, anyway. The move to 4.7 went on with no problem, especially since there weren't a lot of changes between that and 4.6 (which is what I started with). The change to 5.x scares me a little. It's not that I think it will be bad by any means, I'm just not sure where to start in making sure that all of my themes and modules are ready. I've already started looking at my theme (which is more or less the least of the problems I might run into). I just hope all my modules work when all is said and done. This is going to be a big change, and it might as well be done now. Yes, the one bonus of almost no readers...
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It's a week into the new
It's a week into the new year, and many of us are nearly finished breaking the last of our resolutions. However, there is one resolution you should not break if you're still running a Drupal 5 site loan. You've put it off long enough and it is finally time to upgrade to Drupal 6. If you're not convinced I'm going to tell you why you should.
First, a bit of background and a brief look to the future. It used to be that the world could expect a new Drupal release every 12 months or so. Drupal 5.0 was released about a year after Drupal 4.7. Drupal 6.0 was released February 13, 2008, 13 months after Drupal 5. And credit cards, you may have noticed that it is now January 2009 so you might expect that there is a Drupal 7 release on the horizon.
I wouldn't blame you for thinking this, but a funny thing happened on the way to a Drupal 7 release.
First of all, it took a long time for contributed modules to catch up to Drupal 6. While core was ready a year ago, some essential contributed modules only became available as late as November 2008 (2 months ago). The other funny thing that happened along the way is the Drupal 7 ballooned into a massive release that depends on several major architectural changes debit card. If that weren't enough, there has been a herculean undertaking in the works to provide 100% automated test coverage for Drupal core.
There has been amazing progress on Drupal 7, but there have been a few late additions to the Drupal 7 release that are going to delay it. Drupal is finally going to bring a few key contributed modules into the fold and release them as part of the core distribution. The largest of these modules is CCK (Content Construction Kit - which lets you create content types as needed for your site) work at home.