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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2022 21:19:33 -0700
From:      Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to port a PHP application that uses Composer?
Message-ID:  <485d6ba0-abbe-628b-7bcf-9a808960e08e@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <6eaa632a-c56-f1fa-3ae2-b66e14b26ab7@angryox.com>
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On 2022-05-16 20:14, Peter Beckman wrote:
> PHP is an interpreted language, Unless there are compiled portions, there
> is no porting necessary.

There are many reasons to port a PHP application.  Bringing in 
extensions and tracking those dependencies, for example.  I've also seen 
a bunch of applications that need patches to shell commands because they 
assume Linuxisms that don't work on FreeBSD.

> How does the "application" run? Is it just a directory that is configured
> as a root directory for a webserver?

Web and command-line

> Consider that it is something the installer needs to do, or build the
> package as a deterministic set of packages already installed.

Yes, that's exactly the point I'm stuck on.  The fetch-extract-fetch and 
toe-stepping problems mentioned in my original email came from me trying 
to solve this either way:

"If I ran [composer] as part of the pkg building process, there's a 
fetch-extract race as it needs network access, but also a file extracted 
from the distfile.

If I left it to user config, the autoloader script creation will change 
a file managed by pkg."



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