In the latest post to Peter Petermann's site he shares a few thoughts about Composer and how people use it in the more modern PHP ecosystem.
Composer has changed the PHP ecosystem like now other tool introduced - almost everyone is using it today. Now, I have written about Composer before, and have always been a big proponent of using it. However, as i have spend some time with looking more closely on a few things, there is a few problems (some with Composer, some with how people (ab)use Composer) that I would like to write about.
He's broken the list up into six different point, each with a bit of explanation:
- Composer gets slow and resource hungry
- People are using composer as an installer
- People use their own paths
- People don't adhere semver
- People don't tag their releases / don't release
- People release packages with dependencies to unstable versions
He ends the post by looking at each of these points and offering a brief one-liner way to help solve the issue (or at least minimize the problem).
Link: https://devedge.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/a-few-thoughts-about-composer-and-how-people-use-it/