I have a site (www.kidsplaytunes.org) that was recently set up, just after we installed D6, so I set it up in 6. But given that some important modules are not yet available for 6, I was thinking of moving it back to 5. How hard would it be to do that? The main (CCK & Views) mods for 6 are due out in beta any day, but a) I don't know if that will be everything we'll need, and b) that means using beta mods on a production site.
KPT is currently not using any contrib mods at all, so the only customization is the CSS, and the content is pretty minimal.
My sysadmin says "we could try to go back, but I don't know how compatible are the database structures between 5 and 6."
How advisable and or difficult would it be to do this, or am I better off just trying to wait/work ith the D6 modules as they come out?
The first event that might generate a lot of site interest is May 13, and it wil need to have seom community functionality by September 2008.
Generally I wouldn't advise going back. Rather consider setting up a new 5.x site and use copy/paste to move the content from one site to another. Downgrades are unsupported there's all kinds of dragons there.
I don't know what the timeline is for views and cck, but I wouldn't advise using the betas on an important site yet cause of the heavy rewrite of views in this module.
Also remember that because views is a rewrite with no "backward compatibility" any work that you do in 5.x will need to be redone in 6. Depending on your drupal experience, you may want to factor this into your decision. Expect to need to rewrite all of the views that you do in 5.x when you do finally move to 6. That's a pretty good reason to consider waiting till the 6.x modules are available.
I wouldn't think using 6.x views is advisable in the may timeframe, but if the beta does come out within the next few days, then September is probably a completely different story.
Hope that helps,
Good luck,
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Jean Gazis Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:08 AM To: support Subject: [support] moving site from Drupal 6 to 5 (reverse upgrade)
I have a site (www.kidsplaytunes.org) that was recently set up, just after we installed D6, so I set it up in 6. But given that some important modules are not yet available for 6, I was thinking of moving it back to 5. How hard would it be to do that? The main (CCK & Views) mods for 6 are due out in beta any day, but a) I don't know if that will be everything we'll need, and b) that means using beta mods on a production site.
KPT is currently not using any contrib mods at all, so the only customization is the CSS, and the content is pretty minimal.
My sysadmin says "we could try to go back, but I don't know how compatible are the database structures between 5 and 6."
How advisable and or difficult would it be to do this, or am I better off just trying to wait/work ith the D6 modules as they come out?
The first event that might generate a lot of site interest is May 13, and it wil need to have seom community functionality by September 2008.
Yes, for views, but we still haven't seen a cck beta. And its still the beta of a rewrite and not a port. May is upon us, and actually quick releases of betas aren't a really good sign of stability, just that the developers are being very responsive. No offense intented to any of the views maintainers, they do a bang up job.
Also IMHO new site launches need stability over features, I'd always think twice before using beta's in a new site launch.
Anyway just my own opinion, others should feel free to say, "Im using 6.x views on my production site without troubles....." or something like that.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Roy Smith Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:38 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] moving site from Drupal 6 to 5 (reverse upgrade)
I wouldn't think using 6.x views is advisable in the may timeframe,
but
if the beta does come out within the next few days, then September is probably a completely different story.
Didn't beta 1, quickly followed by beta 2 already come out, a few days ago?
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