RFE: add composer install method

[drAlberT]

May be nice to have it being installed via composer too :)

[AD7six]

I don't think that's a good idea - this isn't a php repo, and it means one-more-thing to manage/maintain.

[arthurvr]

I don't think that's a good idea - this isn't a php repo, and it means one-more-thing to manage/maintain.

Agreed.

[drAlberT]

@AD7six you are right .. this is not a PHP repo

But, as far as I can see this is neither a nodejs repo too .. uhmm so why Bower? requires Node and npm and Git.

[drAlberT]

@arthurvr ah ok .. closed in a few seconds .. I understand

For the sake of information I think that a web server can already have a number of languages installed (python, php, nodejs, whatever ...) so I was thinking it would had been a far sight approach to support the widely used package managers .. and composer is widely used IFAICS

My 2 cents

[AD7six]

so why Bower?

Bower is commonly used for managing frontend assets whereas composer is not; supporting composer also means supporting an ever-expanding list of not-really-related-to-this-project build tools. If you want it though, feel free to create it.

[drAlberT]

@AD7six uhmm .. what am I missing? is apache configuration "frontend asset"?

I got your point .. ok

PS:
for the sake of completeness https://packagist.org/packages/components/ exists and is used ..

[arthurvr]

@AD7six uhmm .. what am I missing? is apache configuration "frontend asset"?

No, but many developers handle it like being one. A common usecase of the npm version is what WSK does for example.