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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 02:11

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Just had a 2 quick questions concerning Ubercart 2.0:

1. Has any date been given when it will be released? The finalized version, not the 'dev' version that's out there now.

2. Is Ubercart 2.0 being made to work with Drupal 7? I know, I know, Drupal 7 hasn't been released yet, but I see a lot of Drupal module developers make postings in Drupal.org saying "...when Drupal 7 is released, a new version of this module will be released the same day." Just wondering if we can look down the road that far just yet?

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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 16:05

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Re: Ubercart 2.0 Release Date and Working in Drupal 7?

Welcome aboard and thanks for posting! Ubercart 2.0 has been "near complete" for so long I've emptied that adjective of meaning. There are issues in the issue tracker tagged w/ "ubercamp sprint" that need to be cleared up before it's 2.0 ready, but as soon as we can pull the trigger we will. Lyle just nailed down a long standing issue that was holding things up, in fact, and the primary work left is on solidifying the price handler.

Regarding D7, 2.0 is only targeting D6. Assuming we can do rapid development and maintain a forward-port, 3.0 will be on D6/7. If we have to target one, though, it'll most likely be D6.

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:10

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Thanks Ryan for the Awesome Info

Thanks for the 'welcome aboard' message. Looking forward to making more postings in the future.

Also, thank you for the great information on Ubercart 2.0 and version 3. Even though I'm just starting to learn all the great things in Ubercart--it's an awesome tool to work with.

Keep up the great posts and helping everyone out.

~ Brian

Sat, 12/12/2009 - 04:52

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Re: Thanks Ryan for the Awesome Info

Sounds like it could be quite some time before Ubercart works on D7 ?

This seems like a terrible shame. Drupal 7 is *awesome* but without Ubercart it's like it's missing a limb .

I'm wondering how much effort might be invovled for a "beginner" in porting Ubercart 2.0 to Drupal 7 or whether this is likely to even be practical.

I'm an experienced web developer, but I have minimal experience of developing Drupal modules or with Ubercart code. Maybe this would be a good way to get to grips with Drupal modules and Ubercart development ?

Sat, 12/12/2009 - 13:30

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Re: Re: Thanks Ryan for the Awesome Info

Lyle is actually heading up the efforts on a port already, you're welcome to contribute any way you can, the more who help, the faster it gets done.

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 06:44

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Re: Re: Re: Thanks Ryan for the Awesome Info

Thanks Uberchic, but if Lyle is on the case, not sure how / what I could contribute?

Happy to help, but I'm a developer as opposed to a tester, technical writer or whatever.

If no-one else was going to work on the development then I could have made a potentially worthwhile contribution, but it would have been a Drupal / Ubercart learning exercise for me. Lyle will undoubtedly do a vastly quicker / better job

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 16:12

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks Ryan for the Awesome Info

Lots of the contrib modules will need forward porting too, might be a good place to jump in, expecially if there's one that you especially need. Feel free to contact any of the contrib maintainers, or lyle, and let them know where you'd be interested in learning

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 00:32

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How to Help

Dude, don't say that!
Lyle needs your help! go here http://drupal.org/node/696816 and pick an issue to work on, or you could start writing tests. Or even go to http://bazaar.ubercart.org, download the latest code, install it, pick an error message, and fix it. Then submit an issue and a patch on Drupal.org

Jes is right, you could also pick a contributed module and port it. The coder module: http://drupal.org/project/coder will do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Once you have it ported, submit and issue and a patch on drupal.org for the module.
You can also just message Lyle and ask how you can help. I'm sure he will appreciate it.

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 14:20

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Re: How to Help

thanks for the encouragement, currently looking at the issue queue for anything that looks easy

Sun, 02/21/2010 - 22:18

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Hey guys, Any update on when

Hey guys,

Any update on when Ubercart for D7 will be released?

I am currently preparing to develop a new eCommerce website in Drupal/ Ubercart. Should I go with D6, or is it worth the wait for D7? I would like to have the website up and running by about May 2010.

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Tue, 02/23/2010 - 00:25

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Re: Hey guys, Any update on when

You can keep up to date with Ubercart on Drupal 7 here: http://drupal.org/node/696816
It looks like Ubercart on D7 will be ported by the end of March. My best guess is that a stable Drupal 7 won't be released until some time this summer. It doesn't make much sense to make a stable release of Ubercart on D7 before then, so... We will probably keep it in beta or RC until the stable Drupal 7 release. The question is, what to do in terms of Ubercart development in the mean time. We are looking for community input here, but I think the plan is to stop forward development of Ubercart 3 once we get a stable port and move active development to Ubercart 4. The other option is to keep developing on Ubercart 3 until Drupal 7 stable is released. This is good because it gets more features in Ubercart 3, but bad because it keeps anyone from using Ubercart on Drupal 7 during the (potentially long) beta and RC stages.

Either way, there will be a stable Ubercart release when Drupal 7 is stable.

Wed, 04/21/2010 - 19:20

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What's the rush?

It'll probably be another 6 mos to a year before I'd have the confidence to build a UC store on the Drupal 7x platform. Why? Because of unknown security issues and bugs.

I prefer to run a version behind on production servers for that reason alone.

Also, development is so much easier, mainly because of the support you can get from others who have "been there, done that".

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