[pkg-php-pear] Bug#711484: Composer support

[andrea rota]

hi Mathieu,

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:08:51AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Package: pkg-php-tools
> Version: 1.6
> 
> As discussed on the ML [1], Composer "Dependency Manager for PHP " [2]
> seems to get some audience, pkg-php-tools can be improved to support
> its format.
> 
> Two different solutions:
> - use Composer API [3] (this requires packaging it)
> - parse the composer.json file directly

i can try packaging it, although i haven't done much PHP packaging work
at all before except for initial work on wp-cli.

as far as i can see, composer itself is a self-contained
phar file, which can be downloaded directly
(http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar for the latest snapshot, or a
specific version listed on http://getcomposer.org/download/) or via a
PHP script which checks local PHP setup and a few other settings before
retrieving the phar via curl and saving it locally.

in terms of Debian packaging (at least as a starting point), would it be
ok to simply package the upstream phar file or would it be necessary for
debian/rules to actually include the full source tree
(git://github.com/composer/composer.git), run phpunit tests, build the
phar file from scratch, etc?

any pointers to best practices or examples would be very helpful.
(i am looking at pkg-php packages in anonscm.debian.org but i'm not sure
which packages there would be closest in terms of layout to a possible
composer Debian package... perhaps pkg-php/debpear.git?)

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thanks
andrea

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andrea rota

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