By cnelsonakgov on

So does anyone have any recomendations for which version of Drupal to run? I see that a lot of people are posting that they are running the CVS version. I also see that there are a lot of suggested patches for 4.0.

So if it is the case that CVS is the way to go, does anyone have some suggestions for running a site with the CVS version. Any elegant/slick ways to keep your drupal site live and updated using the CVS version?

Thanks,
Curtis

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ax commented

depends on the purpose of your site. if it has many visitors and reliability is an issue, go for a release version (4.0). if its more a personal / experimental site, you will prefer cvs as, as you noticed, it often includes many enhancements over the release version. actually, it has been planned to release more often to bring these enhancements to the broader audience, but because of certain constrains this mostly doesnt happen.

(developers: shouldnt there be a 4.1 release soon? any plans an this? i'll happily help in testing and fixing bugs ...)

about deployment (sorry, i run out of time, so here just some links):
- http://www.daemonnews.org/199903/websites.html (Managing websites using Unix, includes tips on using cvs and staging)
- http://mail.zind.net/pipermail/drupal-devel/2002-March/007314.html , and http://mail.zind.net/pipermail/drupal-devel/2002-February/006667.html (two mails my simon about how he manages its drupal deployment)
- http://www.drupal.org/node.php?id=505 (the update script)
- http://www.drupal.org/node.php?title=main+repository (CVS instructions)