Have you heard of Composer ?

[cyqui]

Magento is starting to have a lot of dependencies, most of the time heavies dependencies (Zend, etc..) and in real Magento projects we also have dependencies.

Composer is a tool that manage dependencies in PHP. It used in Symfony 2.1 to manage Symfony's dependencies.
Very nice PPT here:
http://slides.seld.be/?file=2012-06-07+Dependency+Management+with+Composer.html

There is already thousands PHP Packages that has a composer.json file (like this one) describing their packages.
For example, one of Magento 2 dependencies already use it :
https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/master/composer.json
If you use it as well you will benefit from it.

Once you will have a composer.json file, your project will be crawlable by "packagist" :
http://packagist.org

My company is using packagist internally to index reusable packages.
It will be awsome if we can use Composer within Magento 2.0.

Thanks in advance

PS:
The composer.json i'm suggesting here is minimalistic, but that's a start, feel free to ask if you need infos :)
(i'm pretty sure that Composer authors will provide supports as well if you need it)

[magento-team]

@cyqui Thanks for the suggestion!
We're asking our product management if it is OK to become early adopters of Composer.

[magento-team]

A basic version of composer.json will be added during next update(s) and will be submitted to http://packagist.org/

[fabian]

Cool! 👍

[Seldaek]

@mage2-team if you guys need help or want a review of the composer.json before you release it, feel free to get in touch with me. It's easy to get things wrong at first.

[magento-team]

As you can see above, the latest update mentions that composer.json has been added. Unfortunately because of a bug in our publishing scripts, it actually hasn't been published.
We apologize for the mistake and will fix it with next update.

[magento-team]

The composer.json was successfully published with the latest update.

[magento-team]

Magento is available at packagist.org: http://packagist.org/packages/magento/community-edition
To try it out, create a composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "magento/community-edition": "dev-master"
    }
}

Then run the command:

php /path/to/composer.phar install

[cyqui]

Good to know.
Thanks :)

[sprankle]

I love the fact that your using composer, I would be more awesome if you used it to its fullest extent.
If you removed the library portion and inserted composer calls to their dependencies I feel you would be able to update and manage those dependencies more easily. Not to mention the community could update with a simple composer update command. I know the Zend Framework 2 adopted composer.
https://packages.zendframework.com/#composer

[barryvdh]

I agree, composer is becoming (or already is) the default way to manage dependencies. And many libraries already support it.
https://packagist.org/packages/zendframework/zendframework1
https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/yaml
https://packagist.org/packages/twig/twig
https://packagist.org/packages/phpseclib/phpseclib
PEAR packages: http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#pear

The Mage/Magento and other library files from Magento itself could be put in a stand-alone repository, so they can be downloaded bij composer also.
This would make easier to update a single library and faster to install/upgrade (but a version with vendors can offcourse be supplied).

If you make a base project (this repo), you can just do composer create-project magento/magento2.
It would be even better of it would also be possible to install extensions/modules by just adding them to the required libs in composer.json.

[jefflyne]

I would also like dependencies to be managed by composer where possible.

Extensions/Module support would be awesome. Never will I use Connect Manager.

[ArnaudLigny]

The Mage/Magento and other library files from Magento itself could be put in a stand-alone repository, so they can be downloaded bij composer also.
This would make easier to update a single library and faster to install/upgrade (but a version with vendors can offcourse be supplied).

If you make a base project (this repo), you can just do composer install magento/magento2.
It would be even better of it would also be possible to install extensions/modules by just adding them to the required libs in composer.json.

👍

[real34]

The topic of having connect packages installable with composer has been discussed at magento-hackathon/composer-repository#31 but would need some help from the Magento connect team.
Who from the Magento team could help with this? (I got redirected on Github from Twitter : https://twitter.com/pierremartin/status/418309405348597761)

[benmarks]

@real34 Doesn't that seem like a different request than what is being asked here?

That said, I've sent a note to the person most directly responsible for managing Connect.

[real34]

Yes, it is indeed. Should I create an issue in this repository for tracking this? It is not related to code and I did not know the best place to send such a request...

[benmarks]

Magento is working on a community contact point for these types of inquires. Right now they all seem to be heading to Piotr Kaminski via Twitter.