[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23912: Add Composer package description

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#23912: Add Composer package description
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 Reporter:  Rarst                   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General                 |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  trivial                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by TJNowell):

 WP Core is, and is used as a dependency, be it via composer, svn external,
 git submodule, or manually downloaded and put in place. It's a dependency
 of every WordPress website in existence by virtue of being a WordPress
 website. Exactly how 'modular' or 'legacy' that dependency is, and whether
 it should use autoloaders, is irrelevant to this discussion.
 [https://github.com/components/jquery/blob/master/composer.json Especially
 when some composer dependencies contain no PHP of any kind, yet are
 actively used]

 Johns stuff works, I've ran test cases of deploying sites and keeping them
 up to date, with no issues. I didn't have to declare that I required the
 core installer either, it was pulled in automatically, and I had no issues
 pulling in plugins either, especially with the help of wpackagist.org.


 The biggest boilerplate I saw, was trying to pull in the standard
 twentythirteen theme:

 {{{
 {
     "name": "tomjn/examplesite",
     "repositories": [
         {
             "type": "composer",
             "url": "http://wpackagist.org"
         },
         {
             "type": "package",
             "package": {
                 "name": "wordpress/twentythirteen",
                 "version": "1.0",
                 "type": "wordpress-theme",
                 "source": {
                     "url": "http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/",
                     "type": "svn",
                     "reference": "twentythirteen/1.0/"
                 }
             }
         }
     ],
     "require": {
         "johnpbloch/wordpress": ">=3.6.1 at stable",
         "wpackagist/mp6": ">=2.0",
         "wordpress/twentythirteen": "*",
         "wpackagist/spots": "*"
     },
     "minimum-stability": "dev"
 }
 }}}

 Keep in mind I can also do this:

 {{{
 {
     "name": "tomjn/examplesite-with-akismet",
     "repositories": [
         {
             "type": "git",
             "url": "http://somegithubrepository/with/the-
 above/composer.json"
         }
     ],
     "require": {
         "tomjn/examplesite": "*",
         "wpackagist/akismet": "*"
     },
     "minimum-stability": "dev"
 }
 }}}

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