[alanstorm]

I can't comment specifically on the Fuel framework, but it's probably going to take years (if ever) for "the right" way to use namespaces to emerge among the PHP communities. There's been a decade plus of ingrained name-spacing by convention that PHP developers will need to shed

[jasonlotito]

There is already a standard.

http://groups.google.com/group/php-standards/web/psr-0-final...

Voted on back in 2009 by members of Solar, Cake, Doctrine, Zend, Symfony, Typo3, PHP Core, Yahoo! and others.

[jschreuder]

We actually keep pretty close to that, but have two implementational differences: 1. Namespaces are linked to a specific directory instead of just translated to a path 2. Our paths are fully lowercase

And I stand by those. The first allows for more flexibility when it comes to code organization and the second makes mistakes in classloading a lot less common. You can disagree with these but we have documented them clearly. Also it's quite easy to add another autoloader, ours won't even do a filesystem check when trying to load from an unknown namespace so it should add hardly any overhead to attach a Zend (or anything) compatible loader.

[lastkarrde]

Doctrine2 and Lithium took the lead and went 100% namespaces. Other projects such as Symfony2 and Solar2 have followed suit.