YOURLS/YOURLS — pull request #1584 by LeoColomb (2014-01-06 18:51:51+00:00)
Title: Composer

_[Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you._

## Why we should use it

* Simplify #1583 task
* Re simplify the life
* Improve flexibility
* Better version manipulation
* No more big update (*)
* Clean repo (*)
* Only **one** file PHP-required to include **all** lib
* Only one other file to have composer ok
* Easy Namespaces
* ...
* Actually all reasons for why other languages have already equivalent

## Why we should *not* use it

* Need Composer installation
* Not ready-to-use (*)
* ... (?)

## Why we finely should use it

* Installation is super easy, even on Windows
* Build nightlies is super easy (*)
* GitHub release have the ability to attach binaries (*)

(*) All of these points can be deleted if we use Composer AND keep libs files in the repo.