[support] Which one is preferable - Drupal 6 OR Drupal 7

[Mutuku Ndeti]

Hi,

I am using d6 for now until d7 is "mature" enough. This would be about
6 months to one year after launch.

All the best.

On 2/21/11, Warren Vail <warren at vailtech.net> wrote:
> I host better than a dozen Drupal sites, and while I am planning to switch
> my dev site to D7 in about 6 mos, if that goes well, I'll begin to move my
> client sites when I discover the support for D7 (newer and better modules)
> is better than D6.  I don't want to expose my clients to "The Bleeding
> Edge".
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> Warren Vail
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> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of prothero
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:01 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Which one is preferable - Drupal 6 OR Drupal 7
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> Austin:
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> I'm not meaning to recommend that you start with Drupal 6. Eventually, we
> will all want to change to version 7. I just wanted to warn of some
> potential difficulties for 6 mo or so, and it is hard enough to get up to
> speed with Drupal, without having to deal with bugs and limited
> documentation.
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> Bill
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> William A. Prothero
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> http://earthednet.org/
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> On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:43 PM, prothero wrote:
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> Re Drupal 7 books, when I went to Amazon, I read some of the reviews of
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> "Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition for D7 by John K. VanDyk & Todd
> Tomlinson"
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>  and the book was written before Drupal 7 was released. That gave me pause.
> BUT, there was a suppor web site for updates, so that may have solved the
> problems. It will take awhile for the incredibly rich module library to be
> updated to D7, but maybe only the best supported will be updated early and
> that will make it easier to select the most robust ones for the very huge
> selection of modules.
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> Good luck,
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> Bill
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> William A. Prothero
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> http://earthednet.org/
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> On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Neil Adair wrote:
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> There are also some basic Drupal 7 screencasts at
> http://drupaltherapy.com/date_d7
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> D7 is much simpler to install and maintain with many features in built into
> core such as CCK and Image.
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> Neil
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> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Cory Gilliam <imaaxa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Check out www.lynda.com. They have training videos on both D6 and D7. Also
> www.lullabot.com has a lot of information on both.
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> Pro Drupal Development 2nd edition for D6 by John K. VanDyk, ISBN
> 978-1-4302-0989-8. Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition for D7 by John K.
> VanDyk & Todd Tomlinson, ISBN 978-1-432-2838-7
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> Cory
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