Plugin required dependencies about october

[jakobfdev]

#veryofftopic

I guess is has to be RainLab.User with a capital L.

Give it a try

[JohannesMP]

+1. Currently when you install Rainlab.Forum without Rainlab.User you get an error when trying to access the backend: http://i.imgur.com/hvseguS.png

Additionally, if the ability to disable a plugin is implemented (#75) then a plugin that is missing dependencies can be disabled be forced to be disabled, allowing it to remain installed and not cause issues.

[daftspunk]

Refs rainlab/userplus-plugin#9

[october-fan]

I've been a huge fan of OctoberCMS since I completed my last project using it. Very nice work, gentlemen.

I could never understand from the get-go why plugins can't just be plain Composer packages (or can they???). I'm pretty sure this was a design decision that you did not make lightly. But I can't help saying that that you probably would not be wrestling with plugin dependency resolution if they were, since that is what Composer does right out of the box.

[daftspunk]

Hey there @october-fan! We did spend quite a bit of time exploring this option, the main problem is composer requires git to be installed and it needs ~1GB of RAM to function. In this light, composer is supported as a second class citizen (so you can use it if you want). The update process used by the October gateway simplifies everything and is much faster. Internally October handles the dependencies just fine, it lacks in the UX/UI department, which is what this issue tries to address.

[valiknet18]

I've some problem, when i want extend Rainlab.User plugin, and in own plugin use

public $require = [
        'Rainlab.User'
    ];

i get error

Class name is not registered for the component "RegistrationForm". Check the component plugin.

But without this definition, application worked fine

[daftspunk]

We can finally see the back of this issue. The server will now process the $require property on plugins and store those relationships. When installing a plugin, the information of those required plugins will also be supplied, the system will check if it has them and if not, it will download the entire bundle for installation.

Note the User Plus plugin has picked up its two dependencies, like a theme would.