[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:               |
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Comment (by TJNowell):

 +1 to Johns suggestion.

 The bpetty proposed composer.json is problematic because it forces all
 users of composer.json into a certain workflow. It makes it more difficult
 for people who use SVN externals and Git externals to switch, and it
 removes the ability for composer to update WP Core itself. This is not the
 case with the composer.json proposed by Rarst/John and in active use by
 numerous people already. Such a composer.json would make things more
 difficult for existing composer users, not less, and it would remove some
 of the benefits of using a tool such as composer

 For people such as bpetty, etc, a composer.json that sits in a git repo
 that already contains WP Core, that references only plugins and themes
 would be more appropriate, and their reasoning is based on a workflow that
 is irrelevant to this issue.

 Of note, Drupal 8 has a type of drupal-core, and matches Johns approach.
 Let this be the end of the "lets see what Drupal etc do" points, they've
 done it, we've seen it, lets move on.

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