Composer VS semver

Delving into PHP frameworks like Laravel or Symfony is like building a skyscraper, with Composer acting as your "construction foreman," guiding you step by step to ensure your code is robust and awe-inspiring. This stage involves getting familiar with popular PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc., and utilizing the functionalities provided by these frameworks to rapidly develop efficient, maintainable web applications. Tools to consider: Laravel, Composer.

In our example application we will manage dependencies via Composer.

Our project template is equipped with Composer and an autoload class pre-installed. This inclusion in the repository streamlines the setup process, particularly for this access-token course. Composer, a dependency manager for PHP, simplifies the integration of external libraries and ensures efficient autoloading of classes. It plays a pivotal role in managing project dependencies, enabling developers to focus more on implementation rather than manual library management. If you're unfamiliar with Composer or need guidance on its installation, refer to the following link for detailed instructions: [https://getcomposer.org/] and this article for more details on the setup of the packages in this project.

On you Jenkins server, install PHP, its dependencies and Composer tool (Feel free to do this manually at first, then update your Ansible accordingly later)

Composer

Composer for installing the PHP package: https://getcomposer.org/

Composer bisect command #11119

Composer is a PHP package manager and it will allow us to use many out-of-the-box packages and features such as HTTP requests, logging, and templates and database management. I use it to develop large, complex applications.

Composer: This is the most commonly used php package manager. Symfony manages its vendors using it. You can install composer from its site.

To set the API keys as environment variables, you need to install the phpdotenv package using Composer. Navigate to the project folder in your terminal and run the following command.

Semantic Versioning: An established convention for version numbers following the pattern MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

Increases the major of the latest tag and prints it As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release…

I believe neovim follows semantic versioning. https://semver.org/

Semver has been 2.0.0 for 10 years, look at the date of the assets. Multiple releases created today where none existed before. Not sure why someone is creating releases now, perhaps just some housekeeping/cleanup.

https://github.com/semver/semver/releases

If you're using semver, read the spec it's not overly long or hard to understand.

Semantic versioning actually has a clear rule about this:

The biggest issue with semver is that it encourages compatibility breakages unoer a false promise that increased major version number saves the users from the dependency hell.

https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/771

Python versions include a major, minor, and micro component. It's slightly similar in concept to semver, though the minor version may do something incompatible at times. An example of this is the removal of distutils in 3.12. While technically not a language change persay, it did mean some build systems had to be revamped to accommodate this change. In general you'll see python referred to in a major.minor format such as: