Re: [development] One core, many distributions
Just a bit of insight from another drupal user. First post too. When I first stumbled on drupal everything I read/was told led me to believe it was a kick ass CMS. Now that I've been working with it for a few months I tend to think of it as more of a development platform. Or I guess the best comparison I can give is that drupal is to websites as debian is to linux. Lots of high quality infrastructure, flxibility and extendibility, not much focus on any particular area outside of the core idea. And like debian, it has it's benefits and drawbacks. One benefit is it can be all things to all people, and it's biggest drawback is that it's generic and requires work on the users part to get the solution they actually want. And in the debian world, more specialized distributions have cropped up to meet the needs of a large portion of users (ubuntu). The existence of ubuntu doesn't necessarily effect what the debian team chooses to make a priority. Though it could, but there's no guarantees. If drupal doesn't meet your specific needs you have choices. That's good news!!!!! I'm glad that opensource software is getting more and more popular with normal human beings. At the same time though I'm looking forward to a time when normal human beings finally understand that they are participating in a community, not depending on companies providing free software. -- Thomas G. Willis ----------------------------------------------- http://i-see-sound.com http://tomwillis.sonicdiscord.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Nov 2005, at 4:50 PM, Thomas G. Willis wrote:
Just a bit of insight from another drupal user. First post too.
When I first stumbled on drupal everything I read/was told led me to believe it was a kick ass CMS. Now that I've been working with it for a few months I tend to think of it as more of a development platform. Or I guess the best comparison I can give is that drupal is to websites as debian is to linux.
Yup. drupal is the debian of the web. - -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDhIKtgegMqdGlkasRAop3AJ9O937skvXrgAAO2oVtS9yBVwzOZACgqM9P QgItDhhWi38Wpn9HljaXyMY= =OvAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 08:54 am, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
When I first stumbled on drupal everything I read/was told led me to believe it was a kick ass CMS. Now that I've been working with it for a few months I tend to think of it as more of a development platform. Or I guess the best comparison I can give is that drupal is to websites as debian is to linux.
Yup.
drupal is the debian of the web.
No wonder I like it (he writes from a Debian Sid box). :-) Although 4.7 seems to have slipped as far as sarge, schedule wise. Boy the comparison just gets better and better... All we need now is aptitude (automated module installer) and we can start using that as our slogan. "Drupal: The Debian of the Web". (This post provided with its very own grain of salt. We recommend holding it against your cheek with your tongue. --The Management) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
I've had it with sid at home. I'm a somewhat happy ubuntu user now, got tired of shit breaking everyday. Something like aptitude would be nice. if you could work that into the 4.7core after you get pathauto in there that would be great. ;) Also, my particular need is to replace jinzora with drupal for my mp3 collection at home. Can we put that in Core too? (sooooo kidding) Honestly I think a well defined core is probably the best approach. It's the only way I can think of that potentially yields a solid foundation for someone else to run with to get their needs met. And probably remove all instances of CMS/Content Management System off the website as to not mislead people in thinking that they've found something to replace wordpress with. On 11/23/05, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 08:54 am, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
When I first stumbled on drupal everything I read/was told led me to believe it was a kick ass CMS. Now that I've been working with it for a few months I tend to think of it as more of a development platform. Or I guess the best comparison I can give is that drupal is to websites as debian is to linux.
Yup.
drupal is the debian of the web.
No wonder I like it (he writes from a Debian Sid box). :-)
Although 4.7 seems to have slipped as far as sarge, schedule wise. Boy the comparison just gets better and better...
All we need now is aptitude (automated module installer) and we can start using that as our slogan. "Drupal: The Debian of the Web".
(This post provided with its very own grain of salt. We recommend holding it against your cheek with your tongue. --The Management)
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas G. Willis ----------------------------------------------- http://i-see-sound.com http://tomwillis.sonicdiscord.com
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