Wouldn't it be better to have in composer.json just PHP version dependancy?

[thorewi]

Hello,

Wouldn't it be better to have in composer.json just PHP version dependancy? And deal with everything else via phar. Similar to https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan.

I would like to install it via composer but sometimes I have dependencies in my project which conflicts with those in cachetool. Then I need to install it via

curl -sLO https://github.com/gordalina/cachetool/releases/latest/download/cachetool.phar
chmod +x cachetool.phar

but I'm losing PHP version check.

Thank you.

[gordalina]

This is a very good idea!

[codegain]

Hi,

I would like to propose a solution like https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac: There is a seperate repository (https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac-shim) which just contains the .phar file. That way the tool is still installable via composer and is auto-updated via composer update. Callable via vendor/bin/deptrac

[staabm]

just came here to also open a similar issue. having a zero dependency cachetool would be perfect.
we use the phpstan and also the deptrac-shim and both work great for us.

to add another example: there is also a php-cs-fixer shim for a few months: https://github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer/shim

[mbrodala]

So this is about providing a Phar package of this tool. Either as separate package with a dedicated package name or by building and providing the Phar as bin/cachetool.

See e.g. Deployer for an example of the latter:

• https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/80627a688343b2a14cf5768e2e9435fd0ba8d156/.github/workflows/release.yml#L36-L43
• https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/80627a688343b2a14cf5768e2e9435fd0ba8d156/.github/workflows/release.yml#L51-L57

[staabm]

one other thing which could work alternatively. if cachetool would be distributed as a executable file it would be self contained und would even work without php beeing installed, see https://github.com/crazywhalecc/static-php-cli

[sanderdlm]

Not really trying to plug my own project here, but I ran into the same issue last year. I had to get this working for a lot of different projects, running a lot of different PHP versions, sometimes on the same server. In the end I replicated the opcache:reset functionality (because I only needed that command) into a separate package with only 1 dependency. Might be useful for anyone here too: chop

[mbrodala]

Notice that this would probably also help solving #238.