Plugins for Drupal 7?

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Drupal 7 is in Alpha release. It seems solid enough to start building basic apps around. Question though - what about the plugins?

Are all of the Drupal 6 plugins incompatible with Drupal7? Can some of them be installed (e.g. Lazy Image Loader, etc)? If this truly is a problem as I fear - any ideas when the plugins will become avaialable?

Thanks!

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Usually I believe plugins do break when upgrading to a major version. Major version changes usually indicate a significant architectural update, so that implies plugins would break.

As for when they become available. You would have to ask the individual authors or drupal developers, not really something anyone here can answer.

If you asked about general feelings or opinions towards Joomla or Drupal I would tell you exactly how I felt, but this is fairly specific to that project.

Cheers,
Alex

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Yes that’s quit true…Plugins might be a issue…But I guess there developer will take things in consideration and make the upgrade much easier.

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There is the d7 pledge movement, where module maintainers make the pledge to provide a d7 compatible version by the day that d7 is released. Most of the popular modules have joined this, as far as I understand.

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Interesting. I’ve been reading and it sounds like a few of the more popular image utility modules have actually been sucked into Drupal Core for verison 7: ImageCache, Image, iMCE, CCK Imagefield. Anyone know how true that is?

> “If you asked about general feelings or opinions towards Joomla or Drupal I would tell you exactly how I felt”.

Ha - well, sure. How could a resist asking you to expand? Please do tell. I’ve heard a lot of the usability issues are nicely addressed though in D7. You think it might be better than your previous experiences or is your opinion core to what Drupal is?

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Yes, I don’t remember exactly which modules it is - I’m sure you can find it somewhere on the official website - but it’s true that they included a couple of popular modules in core.

The big question is how hard it is to migrate from d6 to d7, because the fact that a module is ready for d7 doesn’t necessarily mean that the transition is fluent. Of course, if you’re starting a new project from scratch, then that is a non-issue.