I saw (via Siebrand) this tweet Tuesday from Nils Adermann of Composer fame:
Fusing #PHP communities: Promising discussions on code reuse in #MediaWiki through #composerphp this afternoon at @wikimedia, thanks @robla! https://twitter.com/naderman/status/260918497276731392
What is the status on this discussion? Are we planning to use Composer in the future? This sounds really exciting!
Mark.
On 09/27/2012 09:47 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
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.