Implement composer to manage elis

[dmouse]

Hi,

We are doing a project with elis and We loved composer, Do You think in use composer like a package manager for elis?

btw, Awesome work!

[jamesmcq]

Hi David - Thanks!

I love composer too! ELIS doesn't currently have any dependencies we need composer for, but if it does in the future we'll definitely be looking at it for dependency management. For installing ELIS itself Moodle has a great plugin repository that can install new plugins with just few clicks. ELIS isn't up there yet but we're working with the maintainers of the plugin repository to get it available as soon as we can.

[dmouse]

In Our case, We are using a CI tool and composer can be useful to manage our project dependencies (like elis).

Composer not only can manage your package dependencies also can be used to distribute your package.

For example swiftmailer don't have any package dependency, however use composer to define the PHP version and provide a record in packagist to use in any project.

[dmouse]

I created an example that how to looks like the composer file, remotelearner need create a profile in packagist and register each repository and the project will be available via composer

remotelearner/moodle-local_eliscore#1
https://packagist.org/packages/submit