[Kolab-devel] PHP composer and packaging

[Enrico Tagliavini]

Can't agree more. Packages, from distribution if possible, but also
from upstream is ok are simply the best way. Even for non business
staff I almost certainly exclude any PEAR or similar based package.
Worst case scenario I package it myself, but never use PEAR directly.
If the system f*** up I must be able to simply rebuild it from
scratch, without any difference. Also proper packages are granting you
the updates alongside the main OS updates.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de> wrote:
> On 05.02.2014 11:05, Thomas Brüderli wrote:
>> Hello folks
>>
>> With Roundcube, the Kolab Webadmin Panel, iRony and Synchroton, Kolab
>> has plenty of components aboard which are written in PHP. And obviously
>> not all of them re-invent the wheel and use external libraries to do
>> useful stuff. And, if you're familiar with PHP, you know about the lack
>> of a sophisticated package and dependency management in PHP.
>>
>> There is (or used to be) PEAR to serve the purpose of a central package
>> repository. But unfortunately PEAR is slowly loosing its position and
>> the libraries get more and more outdated. This mainly because there's a
>> new star on the sky that obviously attracts PHP coders: composer [1].
>
> Composer is the same story as rubygems - a dependency nightmare for
> distribution packagers with a lot of edges to look for. Composer is
> suited well for its intended use case but I doubt this is what fits
> kolab best.
>
> In production, many business users prefer distribution-packaged versions
> of applications. This said, a lot of pear project simply moved to own
> pear channels (pirum) instead of the main repository mostly due to
> coding standards reasons. Others do pear and composer in parallel.
>
>
>
>
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