On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera@zmsl.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to all who helped me move my Drupal 4.7 site to 5.9. Now that the base site is upgraded (this is a test site btw) I need to think about modules:
- I had taxonomy_access in the old site. How do I upgrade a module? I
have the new taxonomy_access (the one for 5.9) uploaded but I haven't activated it in case that is the wrong thing to do.
If you have uploaded the 5.x version of the module, go to admin/build/modules, enable the module, and then run update.php
- How do I get rid of old modules that I don't want to use anymore?
Like the eCommerce module. Can I just drop all ec_* tables? Ditto for eJournal and OrganicGroups. These are all modules which I *thought* would help me but didn't and I don't want to keep them.
In Drupal 6 there is an "Uninstall" tab in admin/build/modules. After you disable a module, go to that tab and you will see an option to uninstall the module's tables (assuming that the module has implemented that feature).
Lastly, do you think it's alright if I stay with Drupal 5.9 until next year? The taxonomy_access module is not stable for Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not.
It is fine to stay with 5.9 (or better 5.10) until the modules you need are available. To make sure that a future upgrade will be easy, use only 5.x modules which also have a 6.x version under development, or are expected to have one.
Thanks.
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