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

[Kristof De Jaeger]

I did a fast port for D7, see http://drupal.org/node/336743
It needs some more love in code and UI, but I think we have enough
people (including me) available to help with this.

K

Karoly Negyesi wrote:
>> 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
>