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

[Nick Young]

one of the big things that has frustrated me with Drupal 7, is that the
custom menu system is broken.

By this, I mean that if you build/use a custom menu (anything other than the
pre-defined menus of Primary/Secondary etc), then menus will not work as
expected. The problem is that Drupal 7 does not assign the correct/necessary
"active-trail" attribute to custom menu items, and therefore child items
will not expand as you click through a menu.

IE: If you have a menu with parent items, you expect to be able to click on
those parent items and have the children expand/display. This doesn't
happen. It only happens for the menus that are part of a base install.

This is just one example, but a pretty major reason why Drupal 7 is not
ready for prime-time. Sure, you could install a patch, or one of the few
modules that fix or override this bug, but why should you have to install a
module to do something that should work in the core? I'm not asking for new
functionality, just make it work the same way as it did in Drupal 6.

I'm sure there are other examples of things that were ignored or downgraded
in the rush to launch Drupal 7 in January, but this is the main one that is
preventing me from rolling out any new Drupal sites. When the bugs are fixed
that make the core functionality of Drupal 6 work in Drupal 7, then I'll be
moving quickly to D7....because other than these bugs, it really is a very
nice improvement, which i am very thankful for.

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*Nick Young*
Outreach, Communications & Consulting
Office of Information Technology
North Carolina State University
Box 7109, Raleigh 27695
Ph. 919.513.2716 | E-Mail: nick_young at ncsu.edu
Web: oitdesign.ncsu.edu
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Prasuhn <mike at mikeyp.net> wrote:

> And almost everyone of those and more is present in Drupal 6. This is a
> terrible metric to measure Drupal 7's readiness for site building. There
> has been an increased tendency during the Drupal 7 cycle to fix bugs
> that have been in Drupal for many versions (delete/cancel user account
> anyone?) and we now have a testing framework (which is it's own source
> of bugs at times, even though those don't affect site builders).
>
> I have yet to run into any issues at all with Drupal core while building
> sites on Drupal 7 and I'd say 95% of the contrib modules that I've been
> using are flawless as well.
>
> What experiences have you run into that make you believe that Drupal 7
> is not ready for site building?
>
> -Mike
>
> Neil Coghlan wrote:
> > ultimately, D7 will be the good choice but not till spring at least...5
> > criticals and 200+ majors (many of which would have been critical under
> > old system) tells you it isn't ready (and, maybe controversially, I
> > don't think it was launch ready in Jan either)
> >
>
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