[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:  feature request         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General                 |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  trivial                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by bpetty):

 Replying to [comment:13 Rarst]:
 > Not quite. The problem is that package needs to opt in to use
 `composer/installers` or otherwise Composer will not allow user to choose
 where core (used as dependency) goes and it will mandatory go into
 `vendor` dir, which does not quite fit WP core.

 When used as a dependency, yes. In fact, there is no "logical default
 location" for WordPress core at all. WordPress core isn't the only package
 with this issue - that goes for all PHP applications that need a docroot.
 The Composer issue you opened isn't likely to go anywhere because that's
 simply not how Composer (or composer/installers) is designed to work.
 There isn't a new installer type for every PHP application that requires a
 docroot.

 However, when talking about the "vendor-dir" configuration, I wasn't
 talking about the package when used as a dependency. In that case, the
 "vendor-dir" configuration option is completely ignored by Composer, so it
 doesn't matter what it is. It's only used when the package is used as the
 root package, and there is some validity to customizing it for some
 applications, but like I said, it doesn't matter anyway because WordPress
 isn't one of those applications.

 The "vendor-dir" setting (core composer) and the "type" setting
 (composer/installers) are two completely different settings with very
 different behaviors.

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