To all the PHP developers who use Fossil, here is something that might be useful to you: support for Fossil repositories in Composer.
I personally don't like Composer: it is intrusive, it might run shell scripts on package install, its packages are not signed and can not be trusted, it is quite slow and adds more complexity and magic on top of things. But when you have to use it well you want to be able to include your favorite Fossil repositories. And that's what I coded last week. You can find the patched version of Composer here: https://github.com/bohwaz/composer/tree/fossil And the pull request that will hopefully be merged in the main Composer is here: https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/5467 This is part of my ongoing effort to see more developer tools support Fossil, the last one was a SublimeText plugin to see realtime diff against current checkout in the editor[1], and I will now look at other stuff that need Fossil support. Please note that for your remote repository to be recognized by Composer it has to be on DNS that begins with "fossil." or the URL has to begin with "/fossil/" (or it has to be on ChiselApp). There is no such restriction on local repository checkouts, as long as they contain the .fslckout or _FOSSIL_ file. This is because Composer has only one "vcs" repository type, and not a "git" or "fossil" or "hg" repository type, so it has to magically detect what kind of repo it is, and for remote repositories there is not a lot of ways to do that. I hope this will be useful. Cheers, -- bohwaz [1] https://github.com/bradsokol/VcsGutter/pull/36 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
