Sounds somewhat viable. I know a number of other projects who use composer.
It would be interesting to try it out.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
| tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org>wrote;wrote:
On 09/26/2012 01:54 PM, Krinkle wrote:
We're going towards a flexible modular
system, which
means components have dependencies and build on each other - as opposed
to just
"being there".
This sounds great, but I do see an important missing piece of
infrastructure.
First, I am absolutely in favor of a loosely-coupled, modular system
instead of just building a larger and larger core.
The problem, though, is that there is no way to install, use, or update
extensions apart from doing it by hand. Requiring the installation of
multiple modules by hand isn't going to lead to a thriving, modular
ecosystem. We need a dependency manager.
Thankfully, I think there is already a dependency manager that we can
build on.
I'm talking about Composer (
http://getcomposer.org/).
Of course, MediaWiki isn't aware of this dependency manager and so
MediaWiki's extensions aren't either. I've only looked at it briefly,
but it appears that adding support wouldn't be difficult at all -- it
would just mean adding a file to the git repository.
What do you think?
Mark.
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