Calisto,
I do think that your claim about lack of easy cfml based
image manipulation is valid. You can do it in Java (I actually
sell a product that does
this, but it is not that easy for the Average CFML developer to
do.
But there are lots of third party tools for ColdFusion that
can perform image manipulation. Macromedia decided not to add this,
because they wanted to add support for things like SOAP/Web
Services, which took PHP a while to catch up.
Anyways I think there is nothing wrong with calisto saying
he'd like to see CF have some more features. But don't forget that
CF has lost of features that PHP does not. You just have to pick
the product that makes the most sense for your project.
We can't answer your question about future versions of
ColdFusion, because Adobe keeps that under NDA, and has not
released much to the public yet. You can read
this
article for some more info.
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