Mája Tomášek <maya.toma...@disroot.org> writes: > Hi, > > Since I want to deploy roundcube on my guix machine, I was recently > looking into packaging composer (https://getcomposer.org/) which > is a dependency manager for PHP. > > First it looked like it will be a simple task! Simply download the > installer. But! The installer was actually just a downloader for a .phar > archive. Why do you need a downloader for an archive in a repo? > > So time to reverse engineer the archive. How to build it. Okay, now I > encountered a build script from > https://github.com/composer/getcomposer.org/blob/main/update.sh, but! > Another hickup. This script relies on composer! So you cannot build > composer without having composer! It's dotnet all over. > > So I came to you, what should I do now? Here are my options: > > 1. contact the developers and hope they will help me
Certainly give that a try! > 2. reverse engineer and build composer inside guix from scratch (as guix > needs to install > dependencies outside of package managers and it'll still need to > circumvent the composer's download phase) You could always use git to travel back in composer's time, to a time when composer did not use compuser to build itself. I think that is how to package jquery currently. We just use a really old makefile and have an outdated jquery package. > 3. phar archives are actually acceptable in guix distribution, it > doesn't need to be built from source (i doubt this is the case) You are correct. Guix perfers that we build everything from source. Best of luck! > > Thank you all for any help. > > With wishes of great wednesday, > Maya
