symfony polyfills are unnecessarily installed by default #12337
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fredericgboutin-yapla
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This may be one day fixed by #7557 but not sure when I get to it.. |
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Yup, I didn't think about it that way, but sure. |
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Hi there 👋
I'll go straight to the point 😅
I'm using symfony polyfills and according to their doc it is a good practice to add a
replacestatement in thecomposer.jsonfile.{ "replace": { "symfony/polyfill-php54": "*", "symfony/polyfill-php55": "*", "symfony/polyfill-php56": "*", "symfony/polyfill-php70": "*", "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "*" } }Source: https://github.com/symfony/polyfill?tab=readme-ov-file#design
What it does is that it prevents composer from downloading, installing, registering and for the autoload to provide support for polyfills that are really NOT needed AT ALL.
So, my problem goes like this: I have to replicate and maintain this
replacesection manually in every "application" projects all the time ❗Think about it, even when not explicitly using
symfony/polyfillpackages, a LOT of components out-there depends on them so there is a great chance we are all pulling these dependencies in ourvendorfolder and packaging our applications with them without even realizing it. This is the default behavior here.Look at the downloads on packagist.org for these packages, they are astronomic.
So... I don't have a specific solution in mind but clearly if Composer had some sort of "first-class" support for polyfill or are least for php polyfills - or specifically symfony polyfills 😅 - then when the
composer.jsonhas a PHP version requirement then Composer could "replace" those wasteful packages automatically.For example, having something like this in your
composer.json,would then automatically apply the equivalent of,
What do you think ?
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