eZ components 1.1 roadmap
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Now we released version 1 it is time to think about the next version again.
In the 1.0 released we left out some of the components we had originally
planned, and also started development on already. The list below lists the
functionality we want to add for version 1.1. Additional functionality can
of course be added later.


New Components
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Template 
	A redesigned template engine. See
	http://ez.no/community/developer/specs/component_templating

DatabaseSchema
	A component that allows you to compare database schemas. A schema can be
	an already existing database, or a definition file.
	
SystemInformation
	Takes care of returning the amount of memory, and other system specific
	system information.
	
Url
	Parameter parsing for URL parameters, and path manipulation.

File
	Functionality for atomic files operations and recursively scanning
	through directories to find files. 

Feed
	RSS/ATOM generation and parsing component.

SignalObserver (beta)
	A general IPC framework to send signals between parts of an application.

UnitTest
	Our unit testing system should be made available so that external parties
	can also test the components more easily. (Now only available through SVN)


Changes to Existing Components
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Archive

- read/write support for compressed archives
- getZipInstance should be removed
- memory optimizations
- perhaps move out block/charfile to File
- File locking for writing

Base

- Turn autoload system into something more generic and make it 
  make available as functionality. Currently it can only be used for the
  components themselves.

ConsoleTools

- Autogeneration of help texts
- Better help option support
- New progress bar class (like we have now for the static cache generation
  script)

Database

- Utility classes should be revisited
- Make sure subselects work
- Make sure multi-level joins work

ImageConversion and ImageAnalysis

- Make all currently hidden functionality available.
- Test mbstring and charsets for exif information.

Mail

- Add support for SMTP persistent connections (1 day)
- Add functionality to parse mail messages
- Add a replyTo/bounce/etc functionality, so that the headers for the
  mail that is send as reply to a parsed mail message are correct.
- TLS/SSL support

PersistentObject

- Integration with DatabaseSchema
- Automatic definition generation
- More ActiveRecord like functionality

UserInput

- hasGetData()/hasPostData() should be changed so that it checks on how many
  variables there are in the filtered arrays. This requires a small change in
  the filter extension for PHP.


General Changes
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Options behavior. Added a new way of settings option for all components'
classes with the syntax $obj->options->optionname = <value>.


Documentation
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- Find a way on how to document properties properly with phpDocumenter.