Build and release PHAR #25
Description
Provide PHAR releases for conventional-commits
Right now, the documented way to install this would be to use composer require --dev. I would also like the option of downloading a PHAR file for this.
Background/problem
The dependencies of this package are quite strict which would not let me add this package where I would want to use this. For example, different versions of Drupal depend on different releases of Symfony packages and the version requirements here are quite strict. I can avoid this to an extent with cgr or composer global require --dev but there is a chance of conflicts anyway.
Next, there is a hard dependency on CaptainHook but I would want to use this with GrumPHP. It doesn't make sense to include both in a project. Another way could be to move captainhook to suggests instead of require but that's a big change and might need rewriting and testing.
A third way could be to break the package into supporting libraries and I could use that library in GrumPHP. Again, it's a lot of work.
Considering all this, I think creating a PHAR file is the easiest way out of all of these problems.
Proposal/solution
I suggest building and making PHAR files available and I can help with a PR if you're open to this. Of course, I can only contribute with the way to create PHAR files and I believe the maintainers will need to add it to releases or make it available to Phive, for example. My thought is to use https://github.com/box-project/box but I am open to other methods as well.
Alternatives
Already described in the background above.
Additional context
Already described in the background above.