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Early Adopters of Drupal 6?

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jnunn - Sat, 2008-02-23 17:22

With the recent launch of Drupal 6, I wanted to start some dialog about transitioning to the new core. Has anyone moved their sites, or created any new sites in Drupal 6? If so, what were the snags (if any) for upgrading? I have most of my Drupal installs at 5.5+, so just curious to see if there are any early adopters out there.

James


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I'm not transitioning, I'm

jbigelow - Tue, 2008-04-15 04:42

I'm not transitioning, I'm just getting started with Drupal and chose 6.1, I'm coming from a .NET background. It's been a painful learning curve so far but I just purchased the "Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6" and I hope it will help.

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I have a dev install of Drupal 6

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dustin - Thu, 2008-04-17 17:44

I would strongly recommend caution in deciding whether or not to upgrade from 5 to 6.

Core database changes, API changes, modules that are not yet production-ready for Drupal 6 and modules that do not upgrade from 5 to 6 gracefully can all cause your sites to break.

And that's not all. If your site uses a JQuery plugin or custom JQuery code that works fine for the JQuery bundled with Drupal 5.x , your JavaScript code may not work correctly with the JQuery bundled with 6.x.

Unless there is a compelling need to upgrade, I would be inclined to leave well enough alone.


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