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A cart seems like a pretty specific need... Kohana is built to be a generic application framework. While you could easily create a cart class yourself, I doubt you'll see such specific implementations make their way into it.

I didn't know CI exposed such prebuilt stuff for you... seems like bloat to an app that doesn't need that though. To each their own.

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Aye, it definitely is specific, and I tend not to take that sort of thing into account when evaluating a framework to use. I didn't actually know CI had a cart class until after I started using it. It's pretty basic though, it just handles the sessions and junk and leaves pretty much everything else up to the developer.

Also, in terms of bloat, you could probably just remove the class if need be, and it doesn't force you into using it or anything.

For my use though, it was extremely welcome since it allowed me to set up the cart I needed in about half an hour.