[documentation] info needed for installation guide

[Shai Gluskin]

Kazar,

Let me preface this by saying that D7 is not done and is being changed every
day. I've installed it once and poked around briefly. So that's the grain of
salt you need to take this with.

"Standard" comes with two "content-types" already created like with D6. It
comes with the "article" (replaces "story" from D6 -- but it is just a label
change) content-type which has commenting turned on by default and
"submitted by" information turned on by default and also "promoted to front
page" turned on by default. The second content-type is "page" which has
commenting, "submitted-by", and "Promote to front page" all turned off by
default.

"Minimal" does not come with any content types set up so you have to add a
content-type before you can add content to the site. As part of adding the
content-type you set the comment defaults and also the work-flow (published,
promotoed to front, sticky), and submitted-by default settings as part of
creating your first content-type.

The last dev. version of 7 that I saw called minimal "expert" which I have a
real problem with. I actually think someone's learning curve with Drupal
would be vastly improved by actually creating the content type at the
beginning. A bit longer for sure to set up, but they will actually
understand what a content type is and the relationship between those
settings and a content-type.

Shai

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM, adept digital evolution
<techlists at ade.pt>wrote:

> In the installation guide, it would be helpful to know (in fact, it's
> pretty important to know) the difference between "standard" and "minimal".
> There are no links on that page of the installer itself to explain.
>
> If someone could point me to that info or explain it here (in "shorthand"
> is fine) I'd be happy to edit the page in question (
> http://drupal.org/node/540246 ).
>
> thanks!
>
> kazar
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