Re: [tools-pmc] PMC approval for composer usage in PDT

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dawid Pakuła" <zulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Tools PMC mailing list" <tools-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2016 2:08:06 PM
> Subject: [tools-pmc] PMC approval for composer usage in PDT
> 
> Hi Tools PMC,
> 
> PDT Team wants introduce support for composer [1] [2]. In short, it’s very
> popular dependency manager dedicated for PHP, similar to bower / maven.
> 
> During CQ process for community plugin integration [3] IP Team suggest us to
> ask PMC for approve, and to create workswitch CQ if needed.
> 
> Regarding to guidelines [4] I’m not sure if it’s works-with or prerequisite
> dependncy, so please help:
> 1. We don’t redistribute composer.phar file (btw to run composer.phar, PHP
> command is also required)
> 2. We provide settings page/wizard to select tool form file system, or to
> download it (globally or per project).
> 3. We need such tool to run some command like update / install
> 4. Without composer.phar install, PDT will be still functional (composer.json
> editor, php editor etc…), except methods that require it. 

4. Makes it a clear "works-with" dependency for me. As long as PDT is usable without the dep but provides greater value when the dep is available  this should be works with dependency.

> 
> [1] - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=493886
> [2] - https://getcomposer.org/
> [3] - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11669
> [4] -
> https://eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf
> 
> --
> Dawid Pakuła
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Alexander Kurtakov
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