By swimswimswim on

Looking for Drupal 5 modules, I often see a module listed available as a "HEAD."
What is this? Is it installable as a module, an indication of "under development," a "hold on to yer britches, darn it. It's on the way?"

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yelvington commented

General rule: Don't touch that.

Drupal code is developed in "branches." The HEAD branch is the raw, bleeding-edge branch. Download a version that matches your Drupal installation -- 4.7.x or 5.0.

vm’s picture

vm commented

HEAD versions are versions released for testing purposes against Drupal 5.0 in most cases. issues should be reported to the specific project.

Do not implement a HEAD version on a production server. HEAD versions may be in an unstable state as this is where the developers most recent work is being done.

ica’s picture

ica commented

...and what is exactly the diffence beetween 'HEAD' 'dev' and 'beta' in context of Drupal development?

vm’s picture

vm commented

HEAD is where the developers work and access the files directly.
dev - is a development snapshot of the HEAD version for testing.
beta - is a beta release. (new tag as of november) and can be seen as a testing release.

swimswimswim’s picture

swimswimswim commented

Do not implement a HEAD version on a production server.

Whoops. :p

I'll remove it.

swimswimswim’s picture

swimswimswim commented

Don't touch that.

Perfect. Thank you.

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/handbook/version-info

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide