On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > Telling me it's like cpan just brings back awful awful memories... And a developer, please don't *require* me to use Composer. Don't want it, don't need it. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
