Maybe add extensions/libraries required by Wordpress to composer file

[tomasruud]

I'm not certain about what extensions and libraries Wordpress actually requires to run, and which one of those that are considered "default" in php. But I think it would be a nice addition to indicate what Wordpress actually requires when adding it to a project.

I've recently tried setting up a wp+composer project with docker, and ran into a problem where some of the extensions were not enabled by default in the php docker image. I guess I would have figured out the problem quicker if I knew that some extensions were missing.

[LeoColomb]

roots/wordpress-packager#40 🙂

[tomasruud]

@LeoColomb oh wow, I haven't seen that. Is this live yet?

[LeoColomb]

@tomasruud I don't think so... Honestly, even as a contributor, the pace of development and releasing of the Roots team is difficult to follow, since we do not have access to project discussions, so I don't know what is the status of the wp-packager. 😉

[austinpray]

@LeoColomb Regarding project discussions about roots/wordpress-packager: literally everything is in issues and on GH. There hasn't been any discussion elsewhere. I can add a roadmap to https://github.com/roots/wordpress-packager/projects to make it easer to follow/easy to see what the next step is. It's definitely been slow going because I don't have a budget to work on roots/wordpress-packager and nobody has really been asking for it. I can get a proposal rolling though. roots/wordpress-packager is definitely gonna be easier to maintain/more well-tested than what is in this repo currently.

@tangrufus In the meantime maybe we backport this feature to this repo just like we were gonna do with #9 ?

[tangrufus]

Main challenge is to find out required extensions/libraries for different WordPress versions.

http://displaywp.com/version/52/ is the closest thing I could find. However, it doesn't include extension info.

Related:

• Require PHP extensions ItinerisLtd/wordpress-packager#15
• Require PHP extensions wordpress-packager#40

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It's definitely been slow going because I don't have a budget to work on roots/wordpress-packager and nobody has really been asking for it.

Similar situation to me. I started ItinerisLtd/wordpress-packager because I wanted to make a composer plugin to perform signature verification during composer install. However, it seems those signatures never been published. Probably, I won't spend much time on this project and wordpress-packager until wp.org actually set up signature verification.

[johnbillion]

Related:

• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48086
• https://github.com/johnbillion/ext
• Extension vs lib johnbillion/ext#7

[austinpray]

wow there is finally a definitive list! https://github.com/WordPress/hosting-handbook/blob/master/server-environment.md#php-extensions