Allow for plugins/themes to require wp-less via composer

[dantman]

It would be nice if I could composer require wp-less from a plugin or theme folder as a way of installing wp-less.

Currently due to the "type": "wordpress-plugin" if you try this wp-less will end up in /wp-content/themes/{yourtheme}/wp-content/plugins/wp-less and wp-less' dependencies will be put in /wp-content/themes/{yourtheme}/vendor. wp-less.php is not designed for this structure as it expects that either it's a plugin or that the vendor folder is relative to it.

[roborourke]

@tarendai made this repo work with composer so I'll have to get him to chime in here :)

[tomjn]

The problem here is that you would need to make changes that would break things for everybody else.

To use an analogy, what you're requesting is like saying a car wheel requires a sunroof assembly to function when assembling just the wheel. When assembling a full WP stack, you're assembling a car, but we're thinking about it from the wrong way round here with just the wheel.

Instead require wp-less from your theme and plugin, then require your theme/plugin from the main WordPress project, wp-less will be pulled in and installed in the appropriate location. Such a composer.json would go in the WP root ( it needn't manage every plugin and every theme, and WP Core itself though ).

The alternative is to specify a parent folder, but that would change the composer.json and break things for everyone else.

[nhobi]

This definitely needs to happen :)