Custom bin

[antonmedv]

Q	A
Bug fix?	No
New feature?	Yes
BC breaks?	No
Deprecations?	Yes composer_command
Fixed tickets	#548 #607 #586 #606

This is my version of custom bins. Here an example:

task('default', function () {
    run('{{bin/php}} -v');
    run('{{bin/git}} --version');
    run('{{bin/composer}} --version');
});

What do you think, guys?

[nemoinho]

All in all it looks good to me but would you really download composer if it's missing? I think that should only rise an exception and stop deployer. And maybe deployer should test for a few common locations of composer before doing that. I really don't like the idea, that a application loads extra software without warning or at least an info.

[antonmedv]

For now composer automatically downloaded too. If we remove this, may broke BC.

[antonmedv]

Also it's downloaded via https, so risks a minimal. I think this behavior is good for developer experience, and we should keep it. You can always install composer manually to prevent downloading it.

[nemoinho]

Yep, unfortunately, but maybe we can keep this topic on the agenda for a next major release.

[antonmedv]

👍

[oanhnn]

Please replace with {{bin/php}} composer.phar

$composer = env()->parse('{{bin/php}} composer.phar');

[antonmedv]

👍

[oanhnn]

Users can void a download composer.phar by a task upload composer.phar to shared directory and:

env('bin/composer', '{{bin/php}} {{deploy_path}}/shared/composer.phar');

task('upload_composer', function() {
     upload('/path/to/your/composer.phar', '{{deploy_path}}/shared/');
});

😄

[antonmedv]

@deployphp/maintainer merge? :)

[oanhnn]

I think we will merge to both 3.1.x and 4.x

[oanhnn]

@Elfet I merged branch custom_bin and master to oanhnn/4.x. Now you can merge 😄

[antonmedv]

I think merge master to 4.x too :)

[oanhnn]

Yeah, I merged 😄

[rvanlaak]

@antonmedv would it be easy to change the php bin per host?

Our use-case: we would like to start experimenting with PHP7.4 without affecting the other applications on that host.
The vhost was changed to let Apache serve PHP7.4, but deployment fails because CLI is on PHP7.3.