On 07/22/2013 09:20 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote: > If we require composer, we require users to learn to use composer. > Some like myself have never used it, and while it’s a skill I should > probably learn that will save me considerable time, it may be that > not all will find being forced to learn a new piece of software so great. > > Of course I could be missing something here.
Composer is becoming widely used in the PHP universe. If your only focus of development is MediaWiki, then, yes, this is a pain. However, the use of composer could open up whole new possibilities. For the old Perl hands, composer is a lot like cpan. There are a lot of ugly things in there, but it doesn't take too much to find some really useful re-usable components. And composer would only be a requirement for developers, not end users. There is no reason that we can't still distribute tarballs that a Sysadmin who just maintains a wiki or a wiki farm today would install in the same way he currently does. Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ Love alone reveals the true shape of the universe. -- "Everywhere Present", Stephen Freeman _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
