"Drupal is moving too fast".<br>"Drupal should have backward compatibility".<br>"Drupal should support older versions".<br><br>We just this had this debate on the development list a couple of weeks back.<br>
<br>It is something that used to come up every six months, and now it seems to be more frequent.<br><br>Before we delve into this again, please take the time to review the development list archives and read the arguments and counterarguments there. Otherwise, we will keep rehashing them forever.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Luigi Bai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpb@focalpoint.com">lpb@focalpoint.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I feel that one of the frustrations here is not that the "Drupal community"<br>
will only support two versions, but that in effect each version is a<br>
different product; the policy of not being backward compatible between core<br>
releases is a problem for big sites.<br>
<br>...</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
So, I'd say that as Drupal becomes more popular and more widely used, there is<br>
more of a need to maintain back versions, especially of modules. As Karen has<br>
pointed out, primary contributors can only reasonably write code for a subset<br>
of the possible combinations of <PHP, Drupal> versions. I believe it really<br>
is incumbent on the wider community to fill in the gaps. Perhaps Acquia would<br>
consider adding that as a standard function it performs for the community,<br>
funded by customers who will benefit greatly by having it happen.<br>
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Luigi<br>
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On Sunday, 29 March 2009, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg wrote:<br>
> Sorry if I came across as harsh, but I don't think this is a philosophical<br>
> argument. The Drupal community supports 2 versions. That is the current<br>
> fact. I am not saying that people who want to support Drupal 5 sites are<br>
> used car salesmen, but rather that there are certainly unscrupulous<br>
> salesman, as well as people who (even with the best of intentions) mislead<br>
> their clients into maintaining unreasonable expectations for what can be<br>
> expected at a certain cost.<br>
><br>
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