ergophobe - 9:03 pm on Apr 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

>>I don't think D7 will happen, at least not in the usual release sense

Possibly. I think it will, but you're probably right about the "not in the usual release sense". They're doing code sprints and all that, but they backed off on the annual release schedule they had before. Drupal 6 was ridiculous - most modules hadn't been ported to D5. Some just leapfrogged it. I think a lot of modules will never update to D7, which will almost necessitate a fork.

>> scalability is what I think Drupal core developers are really up against right now

Maybe, but Drupal runs some huge sites. Once you need to scale, I think profiling and such is necessary.

>>These features, can then be tied to any kind of content you add.

Yes, they can, but getting profiles and images to work as nodes is still quite a hassle. If only profiles were a first-class content type without having to muck around with the Content Profile module... the bane of my existence lately.

>> very easily create any kind of content

That remains, to me, one of the killer drupal features.

>>drupal management of files is very weak:

Agreed. Another area where improvements are promised for D7... and D8 perhaps. But still an issue.

>>no suppport by default for WYSIWYG

True, but I think it's gotten easier to integrate with the new WYSIWYG and related modules (latest image assist). I've got some bug reports in on those and I think they're ironed out now.