[dev] Git splitting

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> On the other hand, if you want to actually _run_ git checkouts, you need
> some understanding of what requires what (if no metadata/script handles
> that for you).

This is what can hopefully be handled by a dependency manager, whether  
we can somehow leverage composer or create our own.

Our next step should be to create a horde-components module that will  
automatically create composer.json files from package.xml data.  I  
have some base code laying around that I started working on a few  
months ago (I found a PHP class on GitHub that appears to do the  
necessary package.xml -> composer.json conversion).

It would be useful anyway, whether or not we use composer ourselves,  
to define composer.json files for all of our packages/applications as  
it gives people another way to install Horde components without any  
additional work on our part - I'm assuming these composer.json files  
will be auto updated at the same time package.xml is updated.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]