modman is confusing / maybe wrong

[tobi-pb]

our modman file does not make really sense. normally modman file are just linking files to magento directory.

current situation:

• install module by modman
• modman links composer.json + module-stuff to magento-root-dir
• install extra libs by running composer install in magento-root-dir

maybe better solution

• install module by modman
• module already containing all required libs
• libs are linked to magento-root dir
• module stuff is linked to magento root dir

What is your opionen?

[fooman]

I am not sure how much we can do here. Modman is simply not designed to handle dependencies. This

module already containing all required lib

does not feel right. The dependencies will resolve all the way to symfony and including them in here would negate the benefits of using composer.

Overall there is still an open discussion on how this project can align itself better with https://github.com/MageHack/BehatMage and ideally this project would only provide the necessary glue to run Behat from within Magento.

Feel free to send a pull request that improves the modman situation without having to include required libs.