Non-standard tags implementation

Hi,

Are there any plans to use the standard Joomla tags approach to tags in an extension (see docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Using_Tags_in_an_Extension) rather than the custom approach currently taken (i.e. storing tags in a column along with the item itself, in CSV format?)

As far as I know tag relationships (i.e. item <-> tag) should be stored in  _contentitem_tag_map rather than inline with the item.

Not using this approach means:

- Can't easily use JOINs to fetch data based on tags
- Incompatible with modules that look for associations in  _contentitem_tag_map 
- Need to unpack tag values from field after query has run

None of which are particularly great traits.

Cheers,

Paul

I need this as well.
I am making a module to get content articles tag, and match with tagged items in my component to display some of the information.