[RFC] Extension Managment using Composer

[MichaelC]

I've merged this with the existing topic. It answers your original point of not including an upload feature and details the intergration with titania.

[Kamahl19]

Ok thanks, I have not noticed this was already suggested.

After reading the topic, I still dont understand why are you going to use Composer. Composer is great for developers, but why should it be used for installing Extensions? Why is not the simple upload form + "search and automatically download" feature enough? WP also has this and does not use Composer for it.

[MichaelC]

WP don't use it because it was designed before hand - Drupal are moving to composer for their extensions/modules. Composer is much better at handling the transport and it handles dependency resolution in ways that are extremely complicated and it would be way too complicated to try and develop ourselves (I don't know of anyone who would argue with this).

I personally believe we should have an upload form but the transport/integration with titania should be done with composer - That's doing it properly.

[EXreaction]

Composer is used for handling downloads from remote locations as well as dependency management. For example, you could upload Ext 2 that requires Ext 1, then Composer would grab Ext 1 and install it as well when installing Ext 2.

[Master_Cylinder]

Composer is used for handling downloads from remote locations as well as dependency management. For example, you could upload Ext 2 that requires Ext 1, then Composer would grab Ext 1 and install it as well when installing Ext 2.

Like the FreeBSD ports system...nice. I don't think they use Composer (I think it's mostly shell script and wget) for that but that is good functionality if it handles the dependencies.

[sajaki]

you need shell access to run php composer.phar install, since that's not available on shared hosting i see an issue.

[DavidIQ]

That is only needed for development. For the release this will be done and composer included in the download packages much like we do now with the nightly builds.

[Meis2M]

any news?