Pressflow 7 == Drupal 7 ???

Posted by dalin on November 15, 2011 at 2:40pm

AFAICT Pressflow 7 is almost exactly the same as Drupal 7 except for these two small patches:
https://github.com/pressflow/7/commit/fa91b2fc80741cb8c42c2db618f0ef0ad8...
https://github.com/pressflow/7/commit/6cb28bfd8f5493be6c606856662d5e7d4d...

Am I missing something?

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Yes you are right, the things

Posted by schnitzel on November 15, 2011 at 2:54pm

Yes you are right, the things Pressflow 6 made better are now in Drupal 7 Core.

More infos: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/jan/07/pressflow-7-continuing-push-...

Most of the main (improved)

Posted by Peter Bowey on November 15, 2011 at 3:19pm

Most of the main (improved) Pressflow 6 features are in now in Drupal 7 or have equivalents.
So it is reasonble to state that Pressflow 6 is (was) the main factor - and not 'just' Pressflow 7.

I see Pressflow7 as more of 'API compat. update' to allow doing things the 'new' D7 way.

It was Pressflow 6 that gave us the real improvements (assuming you are not on a shared host):

    Support for database replication
    Support for Squid and Varnish reverse proxy caching
    Optimization for MySQL
    Optimization for PHP 5

So I am staying with Pressflow 6 on a serious dedicated server.
I am not impressed with D7 or Pressflow - too much lags!

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Only differences?

Posted by nicholasthompson on November 22, 2011 at 11:37am

So are those two commits the only differences (at the time of writing, obviously)?

Pressflow 7 == Drupal 7

Posted by Peter Bowey on November 22, 2011 at 12:37pm

It really needs someone to do a full D7/PF7 compare:

1) https://github.com/pressflow/7
to
2) https://github.com/drupal/drupal

To me they seem to 'mostly track' with some sync lag on Pressflow 7.
The current reference posted by David Strauss on January 7, 2011 at 6:54am

Use Drupal 7; it has most* of the important performance and scalability features of Pressflow 6. Pressflow 7 will eventually exist, and (analogous to its predecessors) it will generally consist of Drupal 8 backports, enhancements we'd like to roll into Drupal 8 but need sooner for big projects, and probably some simplification/removal of Drupal 7 systems that slow down large sites but help smaller ones.

*The remaining gaps are very minor and easily addressable in Pressflow 7.

Later events:

Is Pressflow 7 production ready?

Pressflow
Questions
Question #175177

Asked by Esteban Solano on 2011-10-19

We're evaluating the possibility to use Pressflow 7 for a new project we have. We need to start this week, and we're wondering about the state of Pressflow 7. Is it production ready? If so, which advantages or benefits does it have over the current version of Drupal7? More specifically, what new performance advantages does it have?

Answer:

David Strauss (davidstrauss) said on 2011-10-31: #1

Just use regular Drupal for now. There's nothing wrong with PF7, but most of the features currently baked in are more for management than scale.

Seems that most of the P7 (Pressflow) current factors are based on 'alternate branched' GIT code projects.
Check this at the main branch: https://code.launchpad.net/pressflow

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I compared them a couple of

Posted by catch on November 22, 2011 at 12:38pm

I compared them a couple of months ago and that was it.

There is an 'xrender' branch in there as well, but that looked unfinished/stalled to me.

Basically, yes

Posted by joshk on November 29, 2011 at 11:13pm

There hasn't been much work done yet on PF7. Probable additions will be backporting D8 config management, and probably some implementations to help using alternative backends with Field API.

However, as everyone else has mentioned, most of the good ideas were rolled into D7. Until a new set of well-understood performance "patches" emerge, the new development on PressFlow will probably be less active.

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pressflow 6 or 7?

Posted by 7drupal on May 16, 2012 at 7:39am

Greeting
So, for popular websites is better to use pressflow6?
If these two are not much different not used 7!
It is difficult to witch to 7
Whether pressflow 6 performance and query requests is better
Or whether Both are the same
I am useing pressflow 6
Do they go to 7
Is it worth it or better wait for the 8 am
Thank you

You want Drupal 7

Posted by koppie on May 23, 2012 at 3:44am

From what I'm reading here, and based on what other people have said, you want to use plain old Drupal 7 now. Drupal 6 is an old project and there's generally no good reason to use it for a new site. Pressflow 7 doesn't have much advantage over regular Drupal 7.

Bottom line: use Drupal 7.