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Conflict with ext-psr #125

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@boesing boesing commented Apr 7, 2022

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There is a PHP extension around which provides all (most?) PSR interfaces without the need of installing them via composer. Since we do not support this extension and since that extension does not make sense anyways (more details later), we explicitly adding a conflict to the composer.json so that there are no surprises for projects which do have the psr extension installed.

closes #124

Now to the problem with the extension:

There are multiple PSR standards around. Many of them do have multiple major versions around. The extension has to follow semver to avoid breaks in upstream projects. So as of now (v1.2.0), it only provides the interfaces for the v1 versions of the PSR standards.
There is no way to provide multiple major versions of the same PSR interface from within one version of the extension.
Therefore, at some point, an upstream project is either stuck with the v1 versions of the PSR standards or the extension needs to create a hilarious amount of major versions to reflect all possible combinations of all major versions (cartesian product).

Lets just take the PSR-11 + PSR-6 example, we already would have 6 major versions around because PSR-11 has 2 major versions and PSR-6 has 3 major versions:

  • psr/cache 1.x + psr/container 1.x
  • psr/cache 1.x + psr/container 2.x
  • psr/cache 2.x + psr/container 1.x
  • psr/cache 2.x + psr/container 2.x
  • psr/cache 3.x + psr/container 1.x
  • psr/cache 3.x + psr/container 2.x

And these are only 2 packages. I lost track on the current progress, but there will be more major versions in the future and thus the amount of major versions for the extension will grow (and with that, the confusion for upstream projects, maintainers, etc.).

We highly recommend to use composer to install the PSR standards per package in the version the upstream project can work with.
Do not use the psr extension

…ias` to a non-user interface

There is a PHP extension around which provides all (most?) PSR interfaces without the need of installing them via composer. Since we do not support this extension and since that extension does not make sense anyways (more details later), we explicitly adding a `conflict` to the `composer.json` so that there are no surprises for projects which do have the `psr` extension installed.

closes laminas#124

Now to the problem with the extension:

There are multiple PSR standards around. Many of them do have multiple major versions around. The extension has to follow semver to avoid breaks in upstream projects. So as of now (v1.2.0), it only provides the interfaces for the v1 versions of the PSR standards.
There is no way to provide multiple major versions of the same PSR interface from within one version of the extension.
Therefore, at some point, an upstream project is either stuck with the v1 versions of the PSR standards or the extension needs to create a hilarious amount of major versions to reflect all possible combinations of all major versions (cartesian product).

Lets just take the PSR-11 + PSR-6 example, we already would have 6 major versions around because PSR-11 has 2 major versions and PSR-6 has 3 major versions:

- psr/cache 1.x + psr/container 1.x
- psr/cache 1.x + psr/container 2.x
- psr/cache 2.x + psr/container 1.x
- psr/cache 2.x + psr/container 2.x
- psr/cache 3.x + psr/container 1.x
- psr/cache 3.x + psr/container 2.x

And these are only 2 packages. I lost track on the current progress, but there will be more major versions in the future and thus the amount of major versions for the extension will grow (and with that, the confusion for upstream projects, maintainers, etc.).

We highly recommend to use composer to install the PSR standards per package in the version the upstream project can work with.
**Do not use the `psr` extension**

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Bösing <2189546+boesing@users.noreply.github.com>
@boesing boesing added the Bug Something isn't working label Apr 7, 2022
@boesing boesing added this to the 3.11.2 milestone Apr 7, 2022
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Ocramius commented Apr 7, 2022

Note to readers: ext-psr makes sense when PSR classes are needed in extension code, but as it currently stands, that package is a hot mess, and we can't support it until we just declare psr/container as a dependency here (and it will take a while).

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Thanks @boesing!

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