Move composer.json to project root

[DJPaul]

BuddyPress provides a composer.json (for Composer/Packagist) in the release builds. In the development builds, it lives in /src.

I'd like to move this file into the root of the development build, and add tooling to our build scripts to copy it into the root of the release build.

This would be to allow us to use Composer libraries to help with development, as well as using Composer libraries for the release build. Wwe don't do either of these at the moment, but the latter's technically supported. I'd like the former option possible, too.

[johnjamesjacoby]

I am +1 on this idea, if it's achievable.

See: ​https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/183

[netweb]

Reading the Composer issue I see ​https://github.com/wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin comes out well recommended, a quick search of GitHub surfaced this gem ​https://github.com/solsoft/wordpress-boilerplate/blob/4.x/composer.json, looks like a solid example of composer-merge-plugin in a WP context

Last but not least, BPs composer.json is already in the root of the repo, though I understand the intent behind the this ticket and I'm +1 on these enhancements ​https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/composer.json

Related: #7228 Add PHPCS

[DJPaul]

great find Netweb!

[netweb]

Replying to netweb:

BPs composer.json is already in the root of the repo, though I understand the intent behind the this ticket and I'm +1 on these enhancements ​https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/composer.json

Composer was moved from /src to the repo root in [11038], it is copied to the /build folder with a Grunt task

[DJPaul]

This was done in some previous release.