Drupal: Not your friend

Aug 2, ’07 4:09 PM
Author Pete Hindle Categories Regular

Another day, and another Drupal issue. It’s the Open-Source Software that can’t. That really, really can’t.

This time, I’m trying to install it on a MAMP server on my laptop. Something screwy happens, so I head over to the documentation site to find that the main .org for it has gone down. It’s like a macrogasm of why open source is never going to make any friends.

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Comments

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  1. ruth,
    August 23, 2007 at 8:16 am

    Hi Pete, This is funny. I was just singing the praises of Drupal here http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/148#comment-92

    I guess I might not have been quite so upbeat if someone had asked me about the opensource thang when I was banging my head against Drupal installation a year or so ago.

    Did you find a way around the problems? : )Ruth

  2. Pete Hindle,
    August 23, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Thanks Ruth… I shall head over there to vent my ire.

  3. marc garrett,
    August 23, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    I know how you feel. We love what Drupal offers in regard to CSS etc, but when it goes wrong it really goes wrong – we were hacked a couple of weeks ago & just about fixing it all…