New large Drupal site - v7?
Hi,
We're going to start work on a large Drupal site later in the year. Would you recommend we start with v7, so that our site has a longer life before needing redeveloping, or is v7 sufficiently unstable / a long way away from being released that it might make our lives much harder?
Secondly - I've had a look at the v7 code, and I'm surprised to see that you don't distinguish between READ and WRITE database operations. This makes it slightly harder to use Drupal on an existing multiserver MySQL replication platform. I've seen the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/KrisBuytaert/drupal-mysql-cluster/ show why MySQL cluster might not be suited to large Drupal sites, so I'm wondering how people are using Drupal on multiple servers.
Finally, this may not have been the right place to post this question, so if there are more developer-centric forums, please can someone let me know, and I'll wander over there.
Cheers,
rtsh
Drupal 7 is in development stage
You should not use development code for Drupal 7 unless you want to play with it or help out development or tests.
A lot of planned features for D7 are not even committed. These features are also in development.
For example, take the The next generation database layer for D7, it's code in not available yet in D7. But you can follow up progress here : http://drupal.org/node/225450.
And some other features may not have been started yet.
For more information about developing for Drupal, please http://drupal.org/contributors-guide and start submitting your own patches.
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What do you mean by large?
Drupal 5 has a lot of predeveloped functionality, with Drupal 6 you may have to wait or develop functionality yourself.
If you replaced the 'Drupal 7' with 'Drupal 6' then your question would still be relevant...my advice is to stay away from Drupal 7, define your sites functional requirements as close as practical and get a seasoned Drupal developer to look at the feasability of Drupal 5 versus 6 for your specific requirements.
eagu6
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