xp-forge/xp-composer-installer

Composer Installer Packaging Plugin for XP Framework

Composer Plugin for XP Framework

This plugin enabled Composer to install packages written with the XP Framework., _(*1)

Status

This is work-in-progress, at an experimental (even pre-alpha) level., _(*2)

Usage

To use this plugin in a project, you need to have a composer.json file:, _(*3)

{
  "name" : "kiesel/composer-example",
  "minimum-stability": "dev",

  "repositories" : [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/kiesel/oauth"
    },
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/kiesel/xp-composer-installer"
    },
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/kiesel/core"
    }
  ],
  "require" : {
    "xp-forge/oauth": "dev-composer"
  }
}

Then, run composer install. What now effectively happens is:, _(*4)

1. xp-forge/oauth will be fetched, branch composer will be used.
2. That in return depends on xp-framework/core which will then be fetched.
3. Both depend on xp-forge/xp-composer-installer which is a Composer plugin, so that will be fetched, as well.
4. Once all dependencies have been resolved, each dependency's root directory is searched for *.pth files, and their contents be added to this project's composer.pth.

Notes:, _(*5)

• xp-composer-plugin is a Composer plugin responsible for handling xp-library types of dependencies.
• adding these repositories must be done in the root composer.json file
• adding these repositories is only necessary as long as there are no official packages on packagist.
• Then, also the minimum-stability: dev line can probably be removed