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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>prothero<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 20, 2011
1:01 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">support@drupal.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Which one
is preferable - Drupal 6 OR Drupal 7</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Austin</span></font></st1:place></st1:City>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:43 PM, prothero wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Re Drupal 7 books, when I went to Amazon, I read some of the reviews of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition for D7 by John K. VanDyk &
Todd Tomlinson"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Neil Adair wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There are also some basic
Drupal 7 screencasts at <a href="http://drupaltherapy.com/date_d7">http://drupaltherapy.com/date_d7</a><br>
<br>
D7 is much simpler to install and maintain with many features in built into
core such as CCK and Image.<br>
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Neil<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Cory Gilliam <<a
href="mailto:imaaxa@gmail.com">imaaxa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Check out <a href="http://www.lynda.com" target="_blank">www.lynda.com</a>.
They have training videos on both D6 and D7. Also <a
href="http://www.lullabot.com" target="_blank">www.lullabot.com</a> has a lot
of information on both.<br>
<br>
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<br>
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Cory<br>
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