[development] Re: Drupal without modifications

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Op zaterdag 13 mei 2006 18:56, schreef Earl Miles:
>   
>> This is patently untrue. Only my very first Drupal implementation has
>> modifications to core code, and I later learned how to do those things I
>> wanted without core code.
>>     
>
> I just did a very quick CVS diff over my 21 sites multisite installation:
>  Core is omdified, but only because of security reasons (I dont want PHP eval 
> stuff).
>  But 17 of the 21 sites contain one or more modified modules. 
>  6 of the 21 contain modules that I wrote specially for them 
>  15 of 21 contain newly built or modified themes.
>   

You are making these changes because you can. You skills help you to run 
better sites. But even if you had not the skills you yould still use 
Drupal. Sure, your sites would lack a feature here and there, but that's 
not the point. The point is that Drupal "out of the box" works for a lot 
of people and you don't need to know PHP to set up a site which already 
has a lot of features.

Cheers,
    Gerhard