Admin generators for CI2?

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Hi gh0st,

You have used the word "still" a few times, like these are the things that every framework has to have to stay relevant, is that really the case? I know other frameworks have them such as Rails, Django and FuelPHP but these frameworks try much harder to become a "everything you could ever need to make everything" frameworks, instead of a lightweight development core that CodeIgniter is.

Auth, ORM, HMVC and code-generators are all popularly requested features on the UserVoice but Auth is the only one so far to get a thumbs up. There are several stages to getting a feature in: discuss the pro's and con's, the use-cases, does it match the CodeIgniter philosophy, etc, then even when it does get the green light we need to work out the implementation and build it. Then we also have to maintain it, which detracts time from the rest of the codebase.

The answer with Auth, HMVC and ORM has always been "if you want it, install it" and for now that is the same answer really.

Not an official "EllisLab" answer, just the way I see it.