[TYPO3-dev] composer install typo3/cms

[Christian Opitz]

Hi,

we've lately been working on a composer TYPO3 installer [1] and thought 
it would be great to have a official typo3/cms package at packagist [2].

The usual procedure for that would be, to simply add the (git) 
repository to packagist and let composer do the rest. Unfortunately this 
probably won't work with the TYPO3 repository as 1. the tag names there 
are no valid composer versions and 2. the tags don't contain 
composer.json files.

So there are two possibilities to accomplish an packagist package anyway:

1. Add tags in the format, composer expects (v6.1.7 or 6.1.7 or 
release-6.1.7) including the composer.json files to the git repository

2. Create a new git repository just for packagist, which contains the 
relevant tags and composer.json files

We could then contribute our installers and people could just run 
"composer install typo3/cms" to download and install TYPO3.

What do you think? Would one of the ways above be reasonable or do you 
have any other idea?

Cheers,
Christian

[1] https://packagist.org/packages/netresearch/composer-installers
[2] https://packagist.org