Use Parts From Symfony, Laravel etc

I think one of the nice things about CodeIgniter is the fact you get a complete managed package in a single ZIP file.
I agree there are great PHP packages out there but, I don't think CodeIgniter should become just another symfony package wrapper with a CodeIgniter "flavor".
That said since the team has limited resources and can't design "everything".
I think it should loss a little weight (another thread) and make it so using 3rd party packages (packagist, sparks2, etc...)
if the developer wants is easier.

Don Myers

I agree, you more or less can using composer, so the optimal future of CodeIgniter is to have the system be able to be dropped and have the system elements loaded via composer, this gives developers to freedom to use doctrine, or eloquent inside a codeigniter application, or pull in blade or twig, while also not having to manually stip out parts of codeigniter, or have codeigniter parts that are essentially dead code that is never used in an application. Its mostly an organizational suggestion of having the system directory turned into composer loaded structures, or at least having the option to go with the ZIP or composer based.

Say have composer create-project use a full build with all system parts loaded via composer, then have the ZIP file be a "compiled" version of the stack.