On 2013-12-06 5:46 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
It seems that the idea of using Composer more in MediaWiki generally comes up at least once every 2-3 months, but we never get beyond the "wouldn't it be nice if...." stage. I honestly don't think it would take that much of a shove to put us on a trajectory to using it much more seriously.
Strictly speaking one thing did get past the "wouldn't it be nice if...." stage. It used to be possible to install PHPUnit and run our tests with that simply by running `{composer} install`, until someone went and deleted composer.json as a "feature". Which also now that I look back has also messed up the implementation of the " Update our code to use RDFa 1.1 instead of RDFa 1.0"[1] RFC since that feature was the first one to require a composer installed library to function (it only needed it to run tests, but it was the first toe dipped into the water).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Update_our_code_to_use_R...
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]