Will there be support for PHP (and its tools)?

[assyrus-favolo]

Question

I'd love to use this tool to keep my team's PHP and Composer versions in line with each other, do you think it would be possible to add them in the future?

Background of the question

I want to leverage all great aspects of this system like easier onboarding, reproducibility, etc.

Example Code

How the configuration could look

packages:
- name: php/php@vA.B.C
- name: composer/composer@vD.E.F

Note

No response

[suzuki-shunsuke]

I guess it's difficult.
aqua doesn't support running external commands except for some specific commands when installing them.
I'm not familiar with PHP, but seems like we need to run external commands to install PHP.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php

If PHP provides files such as zip and tarball including executable files and aqua can unarchive them, aqua would be able to support PHP.

[assyrus-favolo]

I know for Windows there are archives here https://windows.php.net/download/ (with the archive of other versions here), but I don't know where to find tarball binary releases for the other platforms (only found source releases like that at https://www.php.net/distributions/).
I tried looking for them and currently found nothing official, it looks like they were available at some point according to this comment on the docs, but unfortunately it doesn't specify where to get those from my bad, the comment refers to source releases.
For Composer on the other hand I could only find .phar archives, so I guess PHP would be required in order to install it

[assyrus-favolo]

Confirming that there are no official prebuilt binaries for any platform other than Windows:

Are pre-compiled binary versions available?
We only distribute precompiled binaries for Windows systems, as we are not able to compile PHP for every major Linux/Unix platform with every extension combination. Also note, that many Linux distributions come with PHP built in these days. Windows binaries can be downloaded from our » Downloads page, for Linux binaries, please visit your distribution's website.

[assyrus-favolo]

As an alternative it seems like there is this https://static-php.dev/ which makes some archived precompiled binaries available at https://dl.static-php.dev/static-php-cli/ (e.g. under the common directory, startng from version 8.0.30)