By cloudcity on

Hi, I am new to the Drupal scene and am looking to invest my time and effort in learning and developing for a very flexible CMS with very extensible features. After much research, I settled on Drupal.

I'm getting ready to start experimenting, but I noticed that CCK and Views, which seem to be very core modules of Drupal, are not ready for Drupal 6.

Is this holding anyone else back from moving forward in Drupal? I think my site will be very heavily customized, and I think I'll need all the features and flexibility I can get.

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mike.hobo’s picture

mike.hobo commented

Well, If you don't want to hold back on features, what features of Drupal 6, make it so you can't use drupal 5.x for testing?

dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

Yes, for me this is holding me back a bit as well (at least from a new community site I'm working on). However CCK and Views should be complete in the near future (and improved so vastly in both functionality and performance that the wait is understandable and worthwhile), and so in the mean time I'm continuing to work with and learn Drupal 5 (most of which is the same), and work on other aspects of my site that don't rely as much on Drupal itself (e.g. design/layout and theming, development planning, business planning, learning about how to scale the site's performance in the future, etc). Also I've got Drupal 6 installed as well, and I'm testing it and learning what the new modules can do (Views 2 in particular, which is fantastic). I believe once CCK 2 and Views 2 are officially released, the many modules that rely on them will follow suit shortly after.

So, if you need to complete and release your site in the very near future, then I would advise you to base it on Drupal 5, which is tried and true and still the core of most "high profile" Drupal sites for now, while being careful about your module selections (e.g. try to confirm that the modules you choose to use will end up with Drupal 6 versions in the future, and have not been abandoned, or else budget into development costs what it may take in the future to update those modules yourself or change to a different solution).

If you can wait a bit, then definitely consider an approach like mine.

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cloudcity commented

Thank you for your perspective Keyz, I'm thinking I will wait for them to be done before I really dive in. This is a new site, starting from scratch, so I want to use the newest and most flexible system possible and from what I have read the new versions of CCK and Views will be very powerful.