A couple questions about CodeIgniter 3 (not release date)

[eluser]ivantcholakov[/eluser]
[quote author="Integrated" date="1386568094"]Firstly, are there any plans to integrate a simple authentication library into the base installation of CI 3? (1)

If not, will current libraries designed for CI 2.1.4 be forwards compatible or will they have to be rewritten or at least tweaked? (2)

Also, how difficult will the process of upgrading from 2.1.4 to 3 be? (3)

Finally, more of a subjective question; at this point in time, does it make sense to start new projects with 2.1.4 or 3? (4) [/quote]

1. No, I don't see an opened task for that.

2. Some tweaks would be needed for third-party components, especially regarding to the new strict "ucfirst" class naming convention.

3. Switching to CI 3 is relatively easy, when you start a new project. But upgrading large production sites may bring a lot of work and testing.

This is why I released a platform that maintains compatibility for CI 2.x class naming conventions, my code from old projects works on it without modifications:

https://github.com/ivantcholakov/starter...-edition-3
https://github.com/ivantcholakov/starter...-edition-4

4. I don't see for myself an acceptable alternative of CodeIgniter yet. Laravel is actively promoted, but it is too different for my habits. In my opinion FuelPHP 2 would be closer to CodeIgniter as a concept, but there is no a stable release yet.
If you start with a new project, use CI 3.0-dev, it is good enough for production.