The 'hoa' binary should not be installed with Core about core HOT 19 CLOSED

That's a question I have since a long time. I am not comfortable with the idea of delivering a broken binary. The compromise I found is to log messages:

I don't think that's a good idea to install the hoa binary with hoa/console because:

1. hoa/console does not require neither hoa/dispatcher or hoa/router (https://github.com/hoaproject/Console/blob/e4450ac42d0e807bca7a39bba5b6fede65f54bdd/composer.json),
2. hoa/console is a library, used in combination with hoa/router and hoa/dispatcher to create the hoa binary,
3. All libraries come with a Bin/ directory, containing several commands used by the hoa binary; consequently all libraries would depend on hoa/console, and this is not good.

So it's not strictly related.

What do you think about having a Composer's plugin? /cc @hoaproject/hoackers

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/ping @jubianchi (as you asked on IRC)

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I think the 'official' answer would be to create a separate package that distributes the binary and depends on all three packages.

But, if it were me, I wouldn't be fully sure if I would want to do that... it does reduce the visibility of the binary.

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@evert Welcome in my dilema :-].

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Have you put any further thought towards this yet?

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Not yet. I will try to open a discussion about the split of Hoa\Core very soon. My plans seem correct. This will involve this issue.

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@Hywan Here are my thoughts (based on what I personnally think and on the feedbacks I got from several users of other libraries I contribute to) about this issue :

• The fact that libraries provide some commands accessible through the hoa binary makes them kind of dependent to hoa/console. hoa/core in particular is where the dependency exists. This is some kind of optional dependency because the library just works without hoa/console only users using the CLI will notice the dependency. But,
• I once contributed to a library (which I won't link here because the use case is not really related) and we came though a "optional dependency" problem. I used composer suggests and I got the following answer: There's no such thing as an optional dependency. I do not totally agree with those statements but OK, let's consider them.
• I totally understand you don't want to make a hard-dependency between hoa/core and hoa/console because, most of the time, the hoa binary will not be used and the user will get useless dependencies.
• I totally understand you don't want to hide the hoa binary in a seperate package, but...

Extracting the hoa binary to its own package seems to be the best solution:

• no more unusable (when dependencies are not here) binary in hoa/core
• no more "optional dependencies" in hoa/core
• more user-friendly: user will not have to bother with the binary dependencies and eventual errors, everything will be handled by composer (or any other loader)
• will require an extra package to be installed
• will probably require some work to correctly extract the biary's logic (finding commands among other hoa libraries)
• only a single suggest in each hoa library providing CLI commands

I can easily imagine a new package called hoa/cli with every dependencies hard-linked with composer.json. This package would be responsible of installing the hoa binary, its dependencies and publishing the binary in the root-package bin folder if asked.

My 2 cents ;)

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So, what about putting hoa CLI tools into Hoa\Devtools?

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the hoa commands are not all only related to dev ?

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Agree. So, maybe we have to go through hoa/cli? I don't like the name though. Any better idea? It's like an empty “package”. Do we keep the same naming for these packages?

Please @hoaproject/hoackers, vote!

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hoa/cli is a common name and everybody know what this package do only with the name.

"It's a cli for hoa"

So, 👍 @jubianchi

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Ok. Any volunteer? /cc @hoaproject/hoackers

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@Hywan I'm on it ;)

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@jubianchi Perfect :-). Are you a commiter to create the new repository? Please, come on IRC to discuss about that.

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I'm coming on IRC right now ;)

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Feedbacks welcome: https://github.com/jubianchi/hoaproject-cli/

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Done. Hoa\Cli.

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👍

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awesome!

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