Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Extension management with Composer/Hard dependency upon composer/reply (5)

It is not inteded that Composer be a hard requirement. It will be on top of the existing way of installing extensions. So if you want do it manually, you still can and the process will not get any more complicated. But if the RfC is implemented, you can take the alternative route via the extension installer.

Also, I'd like to see the architecture of the extension manater built in such a way that it's possible to change the mechanism that handles dependency management. So it should be possible to adapt the extension manager to a different "engine".

However, I think we should agree on one engine (hence Composer) and not plan for a whole bunch of solutions intially, to keep things within a reasonable scope and timeframe.