Re: [Kolab-devel] PHP composer and packaging

I completely agree with this too :) For whatever that's worth.  Composer 
(along with the folder structure for it's autoloader) is a fantastic 
tool for PHP projects.  Being able to use it for installing the PHP 
components of Kolab would be fantastic for me especially since I want to 
de-couple that side of Kolab from the other sections so that it can be 
used with Dovecot and OpenLDAP on different servers.

------ Original Message ------
From: "Hans de Raad" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/5/2014 1:21:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] PHP composer and packaging

>Composer is a great tool because of its project-oriented instead of 
>system-wide approach, this pretty much eliminates annoying dependency 
>issues like PEAR (or PECL, or ruby-gem) introduce.
>
>And, it could be a trade-off inbetween, where the default packages (ie 
>for installation) could be handled through package management, while 
>plugins/advanced additional features could be handled through composer.
>
>The real problem for Roundcube probably is that distributions are 
>generally too slow on updating PHP packages/libraries, even if they are 
>stand-alone, there is no simple way to solve that, because it does make 
>a lot of sense for a lot of other packages, but a way around it would 
>be highly appreciated.
>
>I for one would love the possibility of being able to install 
>Roundcube/chwala/etc with composer and forget about the package manager 
>altogether for these specific packages (just like i do for 
>Drupal/phpMyAdmin/etc/etc).
>
>Best regards,
>Hans de Raad
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>On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 12:00:03 PM 
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