[aklug] Re: Two drupal websites to check out

* Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> [130211 07:24]:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> >> It is a reflection of the difference between me and the drupal/PHP
> >> community at large when I posted a question to their ML about
> >> obfuscating the login and admin page URLs. I received some rather
> >> impatient and possibly derisive comments that wondered aloud as to
> >> why I would bother...
> >
> > I had a similar Drupal experience.
> >
> > http://drupal.org/node/1171756#comment-5842376
>
> tl;dr version:
>
> Hundreds of people have reported being affected by a bug in the
> installer that is very difficult to debug, but the core development
> team refuses to fix it or even publish a reproducible workaround.
>
> If the installer is bad and not supported, I expect that Drupal itself
> is similarly plagued, so I avoided.

  I started with 7.15.

  I have done many installs on both my domain host and my own work
  station and the only time I ran into trouble was when I chose
  sqlite as the db and got PDO errors from PHP. Wipe and restart
  solved it. I wonder if that lengthy topic got the attention of the
  main dev crew and was corrected without comment.

  The unfortunate thing about drupal is the core language. And
  despite the fact that Lerdorf (original developer) was dumber than
  a bag of rocks, did a lousy imitation of an ironic hipster and
  couldn't say no to any feature request from the user base (many of
  which, I suspect had no experience with another PL) certain things
  got done right. I.E. mod PHP as an apache default, drupal installs
  on hostmonster with two clicks

  Just try that with django or django-cms... (which is next on my
  agenda...), but there you have core language developed by folks
  who really know how to engineer.

-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
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