[Vtigercrm-developers] Composer

[Rubén A. Estrada Orozco]

Composer was supposed to make it into 7.4.
Would it be a priority for 7.5? I think this was one of the most voted
changes when Uma asked for input for 7.4.

Saludos

Rubén


On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:18 AM Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:

> Since we are talking about composer, what exactly do you want to do?
>
>
> How would composer work on hosting providers (who provide Cpanel or FTP)
> based site management?
>
> You mentioned npm, are you guy’s touching frontend and
>> migrating/integrating vue or some other library?
>
>
> I wanted to check how npm dependencies and sub-dependencies are handled
> for comparison.
> Where some night-mares was cited due to version different in
> child-dependencies. Hope such are not the
> case with composer - but wanted to still check.
>
> Regards,
> Prasad
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:19 PM Sukhdev Mohan <s.mohan at myti.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    1. When creating composer.json you’re inserting all the dependencies
>>    and you can lock versions of the libraries you are importing. Also look at
>>    PSR 4 for namespaces: in the same composer.json you define the namespace
>>    for your app.
>>    2. Yup, I’d leave it upon admin the decision to update. Vtiger can
>>    advise and don’t proceed with update with dependencies aren’t met.
>>    3. If core depends on something that you need to import/install how
>>    can you proceed with installation/update? In other projects when you
>>    install through composer it handles dependencies and proceeds to install.
>>    May be also vtiger should create it’s composer install?
>>    4. Composer doesn’t needs to be installed globally, if the user who
>>    downloads composer has RWX access he can launch composer and download the
>>    dependencies, which are PHP code and binary files. These may require some
>>    components that are missing in the standard php installation (ie. ioncube),
>>    so this is upon the single user.
>>
>>
>> Since we are talking about composer, what exactly do you want to do?
>>
>> You mentioned npm, are you guy’s touching frontend and
>> migrating/integrating vue or some other library?
>>
>> *Sukhdev Mohan*
>> *Developer*
>> On 23 Jul 2021, 16:39 +0200, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com>, wrote:
>>
>> Team,
>>
>> I know I'm too late on this thread - did some homework using composer
>> and npm packages got some questions that need assistance:
>>
>> 1. With composer  - we are not expected to package the dependencies?
>> Would admin expected to (composer install) command-line and then launch
>> the install.php?
>>
>> 2. When a package need update in subsequent version of Vtiger
>> Would admin be expected to (composer update) command-line and then launch
>> the migration.php?
>>
>> 3. What if composer fails with unmet / unavailable packages - should
>> install.php or
>> migration.php check if all dependencies was installed?
>>
>> 4. How would composer work on hosting providers (who provide Cpanel or
>> FTP) based site management?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prasad
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:47 AM Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone on the vtiger team looked into the use of Composer to supply
>>> dependencies?  It would certainly make things a little more flexible,
>>> reduce the size of the download, and discourage the light hacking that
>>> tends to go on when you have the code checked into the main development
>>> branch.
>>>
>>> http://getcomposer.org/
>>>
>>> I recently wired our systems up to use it to pull in the Sauce Labs
>>> "sausage" Selenium web driver for our automated tests.  Doing a bit more
>>> research, it seems to be the *de facto* replacement for PEAR these days.
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