Drupal is widely adopted by large number of major sites around the world since it released 4.7.0 early this year. I like the idea to generate things instead of searching and replacing as usual. It's so call constructive approach. Well, Drupal 5.x is currently on the way. It has lots of promising features. By the way, Drupal has a trade-off problem which you might think it is very dangerous to implement your sites using Drupal. In short, Drupal is usually improved by each major version alot so the newer version might be incompatible to the later one. This problem may not be applied to the standard modules where official supports are available. The fact is that most contributions are incompatible to the newest version and it might be still incompatible until mid of next year.

Fortunately, Drupal is one of the most active open source projects driven by community and contributors from around the world. Above problem could be thought positively as a big chance for all of us to contribute to the project. If you want to use some modules early, please try to convert the code for Drupal 4.7.x to run on Drupal 5.x.

Tags: drupal, cms