Add composer/installers

[michaelcullum]

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[EXreaction]

What's this?

[iMattPro]

Yes, what's this?

[michaelcullum]

<MichaelC|Mobile> naderman: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/2874 It all works as well, we are using it to manage extensions on .com (like sortables) and the official extensions on the demo.
<naderman> MichaelC|Mobile: shouldn't people add that if they need it though? we don't have anything we install with that?
<naderman> although I guess once we have some included extensions I suppose we would
<MichaelC|Mobile> well, we'll need it for 3.2 anyway and it's easier handling for phpbb to include it than every extension?
<MichaelC|Mobile> and we don't want extensions to include it now & then add it to the core for 3.2
<MichaelC|Mobile> and break extensions
<MichaelC|Mobile> and if we do every ship with extensions we'd need it then also
<MichaelC|Mobile> ever*
<naderman> every extension that needs it should have it as a dependency
<MichaelC|Mobile> that is every single extension then? :/
<naderman> that's how composer/installers works
<naderman> yes
<naderman> you always specify all your dependencies
<naderman> and that'll be a dependency for installing an extension
<naderman> it makes no sense to put this into phpbb
<MichaelC|Mobile> hm okay
<MichaelC|Mobile> nickvergessen, paul999: ^

because we use "type": "phpbb-extension", every extension needs to include this to be able to be used by composer properly. So it's now going to be a required requirement for all extensions otherwise they won't work in general with 3.2 or using composer for 3.1.