Re: [Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information in extension.json with Composer's already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer doesn't fit some use-cases for MediaWiki. I see that as an opportunity to be good citizens in the larger developer community by working to integrate MediaWiki into the growing ecosystem available on packagist.org. For example, if composer had been available, we might not have had to develop our own HTTP client. If composer had been available, Brion could have released the work under includes/normal as its own package. As he says in the README there: This directory contains some Unicode normalization routines. These routines are meant to be reusable in other projects, so I'm not tying them to the MediaWiki utility functions.