Drupal 7.x

Given my love of web standards, I took a moment to see whether my site validated as strict XHTML. It seems that a previous post's embedded YouTube caused a handful of errors. That instance was easily fixed, but it made think about automating this task.

Hi,

I have to build a new website. What I wonder is if I'll use the 6.x or the 7.x version. I know the 7th one is only in development, but my website will not be in production before several months.

So your guess? Better use 6.x and upgrade to 7th later? Or start with the 7th one now?

Thanks

I installed the XML Sitemaps module and this is what I get:

incompatible XML Sitemap 5.x-1.6 Creates an XML site map in accordance with the sitemaps.org specification.
This version is incompatible with the 6.2 version of Drupal core.

incompatible XML Sitemap: Engines 5.x-1.6 Submits site map to search engines.
This version is incompatible with the 6.2 version of Drupal core.

incompatible XML Sitemap: Node 5.x-1.6 Adds nodes to the site map.
This version is incompatible with the 6.2 version of Drupal core.

The site, dailystripshow.com (this is an adult-content site) needs to be themed over to either Drupal 6, or 7. We prefer most current version. Theming is only the tip of the iceberg. Most importantly, we want someone who can utilize pre-existing modules to create functionalities based on our needs.

I'm writing a module that retrieves authentication data from an external postgres database (not the drupal database). I've got it authenticating and updating user info. I'm a little unclear about whether drupal was really designed to support this kind of external authentication. It seems that there should be a nice set of module hooks that I could implement (e.g. hook_user_auth, hook_user_get, hook_role_get, hook_user_insert, hook_user_update, hook_user_delete, etc.).

It seems in what I read and see that CCK will be integrated into Drupal Core for Drupal 7.

Having started using Drupal starting with Drupal 6.2 the strength and maturity CCK for site building is obvious and the integration is a no-brainer. But doesn't it necessarily mean that Taxonomy falls away, with CCK fields having the option of being flagged/toggled to behave like current taxonomy terms?

Unless Taxonomy just hangs around as a tool for those that want to use Drupal as more of a blogging platform.