The standard package manager for PHP projects is composer, and packagist.org is its package registry. Many WordPress projects handled by more technical people use composer to manage dependencies, including WordPress plugins.
This PR adds the needed config changes and documentation so that we can publish this plugin there, and people can install it via composer require hypothesis/hypothesis-wp-plugin. This is the equivalent to yarn add @hypothesis/frontend-shared, for example.
Composer defers a bit from other languages package managers, in which the registry only stores metadata, but code itself is installed via git, mercurial, subversion, etc.
However, when installing dependencies for production, you usually pass --prefer-dist (which is actually the default), which in the case of git makes it use git archive and honor the .gitattributes file.
Next steps
Once this is merged, when need to "link" this repository in packagist.org, making it available for install, and ensuring any new git tag will be automatically synced there.
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The standard package manager for PHP projects is composer, and packagist.org is its package registry. Many WordPress projects handled by more technical people use composer to manage dependencies, including WordPress plugins.
This PR adds the needed config changes and documentation so that we can publish this plugin there, and people can install it via
composer require hypothesis/hypothesis-wp-plugin. This is the equivalent toyarn add @hypothesis/frontend-shared, for example.Composer defers a bit from other languages package managers, in which the registry only stores metadata, but code itself is installed via git, mercurial, subversion, etc.
However, when installing dependencies for production, you usually pass
--prefer-dist(which is actually the default), which in the case of git makes it usegit archiveand honor the.gitattributesfile.Next steps
Once this is merged, when need to "link" this repository in packagist.org, making it available for install, and ensuring any new git tag will be automatically synced there.