On 2015-02-16 9:34 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information > in extension.json with Composer's > already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. > > Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer doesn't fit some use-cases > for MediaWiki. I see that as an opportunity to be good citizens in the > larger developer community by working to integrate MediaWiki into the > growing ecosystem available on packagist.org. > > For example, if composer had been available, we might not have had to > develop our own HTTP client. > > If composer had been available, Brion could have released the work under > includes/normal as its own package. As he says in the README there: > > This directory contains some Unicode normalization routines. These > routines are meant to be reusable in other projects, so I'm not > tying them to the MediaWiki utility functions. It looks like two things are being conflated here. - Use of composer to use 3rd party libraries and publish the generic code we create as libraries other people can use. - Use of composer to distribute and install MediaWiki Extensions isolated to the MediaWiki ecosystem.
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