Wishlist for CMS in CI.

[eluser]maadmac[/eluser]
[quote author="Sarfaraz Momin" date="1196368577"]We have discussed through and thought that the template engine would not be a compulsion instead should work as a module. A suggestions on this would surely help. I personally felt of implementing an external template engine but got a good suggestion from walesmd about including a simple theme engine instead of a full fledged templete engine system with all its overheads.[/quote]

I'm thinking that's more desirable, as you state. A competent designer/developer can drop his tags in and format the style himself; I'd vote that a full-fledged templating system is a better choice for down the road. Better to start small, nail the core competencies, then move on a la 37 Signals-style.

I am currently looking for a good caching system, a better way to combine modular configs and and good set of filesystem functions. Does anyone know if we can refer the code of Expression Engine Core. There are some very good practices that the guys at EllisLab follows.

That's a tough call. EE Core is proprietary software, so we can't rip it off. That being said, good design patterns are not something you can trademark; derivative works inspired by another are safe under Fair Use.