[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

[Laura Scott]

ps - you will also want to review the theme changes from 4.7 to 5.  
There is a handbook page that outlines these things. The main  
difference is in how the primary and secondary menus are called by  
the page template.

Laura

On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move  
> it to
> Drupal 5.2?
>
> I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or  
> might
> cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about
> staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in
> the future, and that migration might be more difficult later.
>
> My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that  
> these
> might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards
> compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the  
> best
> way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and
> then copy all the content from the 4.7 site.
>
> I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly
> explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one  
> want to
> move to it?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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