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List of Joomla things we'd like to address preferably with CiviCRM 2.1 in Joomla v1.5 or v1.6

1. How do we make the installer process succeed more often. A couple of issues:

• Our civicrm.xml file is HUGE (240K, 3367 lines, 3315 files!). Only works with "install from directory" option. I think all files are copies twice: from director ==> com_installer ==> administrator/components/com_civicrm (most of the files go there). Large number of people dont get past this step. One potential idea that I have is to use the "install from directory" location as the civicrm root location and only transfer the "joomla" specific files to administrator/components/com_civicrm and components/com_civicrm. This will make minor upgrades much easier (since its then an untar)

• Upgrade is painful . Its an uninstall followed by an install. This is even true for minor in-version upgrades. Due to permissions etc, i dont think folks can just untar / copy stuff over since the web server owns the files

• Better integration with registration OR is our only option building a new registration component? Thats not great since a component like CB also uses that and then the user needs to pick and choose (IMO)

• Would be good to have "api" calls for things like the above. Right now when we create a user, we basically just write into the joomla db (which we picked from the joomla reg code)

• Enable ACL capabilities for Joomla installs (may need to wait until ACL in Joomla 1.6)

• Ability to control frontend access based on user membership status (may not be unique to Joomla)