[development] Drupal 7 could be awesome if...

[Karoly Negyesi]

> As far as I can tell, it needs to have your server be publicly  
> accessible, with an ftp server running,

TRUE.

> or with special libraries compiled into PHP

TRUE

> to even work in a basic setup.

FALSE: We disagree on the definiton of "basic setup".
 
> This means that the module just won't work for the large majority of  
> the install base.

FALSE: The majority of our install base are on shared hosters which run public accessible FTP servers, thank you.

> It can also not be deployed on a local test environment, 

TRUE (unless you start an ftpd or pecl install ssh2)

> as that tends to be behind a firewall with no public IP.

FALSE. (your browser is behind that too)
 
> As it stands, I don't believe it's a good candidate for core.

FALSE.

> (although I am impressed at how secure they have been able to make it)

TRUE. 

Regards

NL