(11-03-2014, 08:16 AM)no1youknowz Wrote: Again, my reaction is "that's it?". Looking at another framework, much more progress in the same timeline.
Maybe its my fault. Maybe I am used to driving a porsche and you are driving a pinto. Who knows! 
No, I agree that more could have been done, but just wanted you to realize it was more than two or three changes.
You've also got to remember the history of this project. It has languished under EllisLab's hands for 2 years now. So of course, no solid direction has been formed to a future. With EL's needs, it needed to stay compatible with their products and the methods they used within those products, as well as stay compatible with as many servers as possible to be able to sell their CMS to as wide as an audience as possible.
We all love new toys and abilities but, seriously, consider the history and reason to exist of the project. There are plenty of other frameworks out there if you need are the latest capabilities of PHP. And, just like a Porsche, they all come with higher costs in some areas, while delivering nicer features, true. Take a look at shared servers, though (which is where many projects that people want to sell to customers will actually run) and you'll realize only a tiny fraction of them support the latest versions of PHP which, as a business-decision, doesn't make sense. Now, if you're doing SaaS or projects for clients where you know the server specifics, or get to pick them, your choices are much broader.
Every project has it's own set of needs and if CodeIgniter doesn't fit your needs anymore, that's great, move on to something that does. By the sounds of it you already have, so why you feel the need to use every post to bash this framework instead of simply move on, I have no idea.
I have huge respect and gratitude for the volunteers that actually kept the project alive and actually did quite a bit of work within the framework of the project's goals. Without them, the framework wouldn't have any life left at all in it.
Now, we move to the future (after v3) and see where we go from here now that it doesn't have the same restrictions and goals.
