Would you install Drupal 5 or 6 today?
askandlearn - July 27, 2008 - 18:54
I need to build a site this week for group working on an election issue. We need to use Civicrm. I would love to use Drupal 6 with Civicrm 2.1 which just went into code freeze. Or I could install Drupal 5 with Civicrm 2.0 which is stable.
Either way I'm going to need to upgrade.
Am I crazy to install Drupal 6 and Civicrm 2.1 right now? I'm just really itching for some of the new features of 2.1.
We had a very hot discussion
We had a very hot discussion regarding this a couple of months ago.
In short: if you plan to launch "one day site" for a very specific campaign/event/period of time - use Drupal 5. It still has richer set of supported modules. But, if you plan to build your site(s) for years - I would recommend to go Drupal 6. Many people and companies, migrating from D5 to D6, are helping to adapt D5 modules and themes - and ratio between modules supported by D5 and D6 is changing really fast!
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Go with stable, then build a
Go with stable, then build a mirror site with 6.x to quench your thirst for the unstable. ;-)
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Yes, you are right, Drupal 5 is prudent
Of course you are both right, Drupal5/Civicrm2.0 is the safe and sane way to go. I'm so hot for the new features of Civicrm2.1 I lost my head for a moment!
I think I WILL build a separate Drupal6/Civicrm2.1 site just to experience the wild thrill of living on the dangerous edge. For the clients, however, I will build Drupal 5/Civicrm2.0 and figure out the upgrades later.
it depends on when you are going into production ..
if you are going live in 2-4 weeks, drupal 5/civi 2.0 is your only sane option. If you are going live in 2+ months, i think drupal 6 / civi 2.1 is the better option (which means u'll install civi 2.1 from svn). in between those two items is a bit dicey and it depends on how good your tech skills are and how large your pain threshold is :)
that said, i think our recent releases have been of quite high quality :)
lobo
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