Nate,

Thank you for asking for such feedback - it's very infrequent that
developers ASK what people don't like, rather than just getting
annoying people blabbing about what they don't like.  Both situations
garner great feedback, but one of the two typically give nicer, more
friendly responses.  :)

What I don't like:
...Community:
 - No support "forum".  I still have a perpetual license to Invision
Power. If you guys want it (CakePHP team), it's yours.
 - No yearly "Give Back to CakePHP Day".  I think it'd be nice if once
a year, the Cake team made a big fuss over people donating things back
to CakePHP; either monetary donations for server costs, test coverage,
tutorials/articles, or code.
 - No web-based chat connection to IRC (can be helpful, but not
necessary)

Bug Reporting:
 - Requiring tests submitted on all bug reports.  I know I've found a
bug, but I've been unable to create a functional test report, and as
such my report was closed.  I'm still working on trying to figure it
out, but it's almost been 6 months, and (what I believe to be) the bug
still exists.  I also understand WHY this was incorporated, but if
something's very easily reproduced with instruction, is the test case
truly necessary?

Cake Bake:
...don't get me wrong, I LOVE the bake tool, but...
 - No skeleton behavior, plugin, component, helper options in the
creation tool
 - No conventions on shell-based output formatting and maximum
character line length (shell output helper?)

Miscellaneous:
 - PHP4 support: I don't know of any companies right now that can't
handle upgrading to PHP5. I remember hearing about a fork and then
phase-out of PHP4 code, but sooner rather than later would be great.
 - Difficult to define configurations for different hosts (dev, test,
production); I believe Rails supports this, we do have Fredistrano
though
 - No timezone setting in configuration for PHP's
date_default_timezone_set() which could (potentially) alleviate many
confused users getting "incorrect" times in their created/updated
fields


Thanks CakePHP team!


On May 7, 6:29 pm, Nate <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, maybe hate's a strong word.  Let's say, what do you like the
> least?  Kind of an odd question, I know, but since we've kick-started
> development of a new version, I'd like to know what the most
> frustrating things with the framework are, even if they're things we
> can't fix right away.
>
> I'll get us started: PHP 4 support.
>
> Who's next? TIA for the input.
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