ergophobe - 9:51 pm on Apr 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

Got ya. All true. The simple fact is that

- drupal is not plug and play. For most applications where it would be, some other platform is generally a better choice.

- drupal is more of a framework. It occupies some middle ground between Cake (PHP framework) and Joomla. The goal is to get it easier to use out of the box, but there are days when I wonder whether or not the better approach would be to make it do *nothing* out of the box and just let it be a CMS/portal/ dev framework.

- something like 4400 modules and a desire to make drupal do anything and everything may be bringing it to a breaking point. Did you see the video that BradleyT posted? It made it sound like Walker and Eaton weren't even planning on working on D7. That's like... I don't know Tedster and coopster not reading WebmasterWorld.

When you get into drupal and see all of the hooks and callbacks and this and that... it's dizzying.

Gallery recently decided that they had reached the breaking point and decided to retrench, cut features, slim the code down and rewrite the whole thing from scratch using a completely new framework. At a certain point, I think the same will happen with drupal.

At the same time, I still haven't seen anything out there that let's you build complex, social/community sites so quickly... but I would guess it's coming.