From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: "Mája Tomášek" <maya.tomasek@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Breaking the loop with php's composer
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:23:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87les5rmoy.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qtx4gy7.fsf@disroot.org> ("Mája Tomášek"'s message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:03:44 +0200")
Mája Tomášek <maya.tomasek@disroot.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Since I want to deploy roundcube on my guix machine, I was recently
> looking into packaging composer (https://getcomposer.org/) which
> is a dependency manager for PHP.
>
> First it looked like it will be a simple task! Simply download the
> installer. But! The installer was actually just a downloader for a .phar
> archive. Why do you need a downloader for an archive in a repo?
>
> So time to reverse engineer the archive. How to build it. Okay, now I
> encountered a build script from
> https://github.com/composer/getcomposer.org/blob/main/update.sh, but!
> Another hickup. This script relies on composer! So you cannot build
> composer without having composer! It's dotnet all over.
>
> So I came to you, what should I do now? Here are my options:
>
> 1. contact the developers and hope they will help me
Certainly give that a try!
> 2. reverse engineer and build composer inside guix from scratch (as guix needs to install
> dependencies outside of package managers and it'll still need to
> circumvent the composer's download phase)
You could always use git to travel back in composer's time, to a time
when composer did not use compuser to build itself. I think that is how
to package jquery currently. We just use a really old makefile and have
an outdated jquery package.
> 3. phar archives are actually acceptable in guix distribution, it
> doesn't need to be built from source (i doubt this is the case)
You are correct. Guix perfers that we build everything from source.
Best of luck!
>
> Thank you all for any help.
>
> With wishes of great wednesday,
> Maya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-03 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-03 13:03 Breaking the loop with php's composer Mája Tomášek
2022-08-03 22:23 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2022-08-07 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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