Phpspreadsheet: Composer - Why force me to use it?

[noxidsoft]

This is:

- [ ] a bug report
- [*] a feature request
- [ ] **not** a usage question (ask them on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/phpspreadsheet or https://gitter.im/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet)

What is the expected behavior?

Direct download (not dependent on Composer)

What is the current behavior?

Forced to use Composer, NPM minimal would be better or direct download/PHP file library copy

[gmsantos]

Composer is wide used for PHP projects and it is great to manage external code dependencies. I can only point in advantages to use it.

[PowerKiKi]

Composer is the de-factor PHP package managers. As PhpSpreadsheet evolves, we need to depends on other packages. Composer will manage those packages automatically for you.

@gmsantos I exceptionally edited your comment because you gave instructions that could not work (unless if you know really well what you are doing, which is not the case here).

[noxidsoft]

Nearly two years later, totally forgot about this off-hand comment I made, touchy subject for some I guess. For historicity sake, I do use Composer, always have and I'm well aware of it's standing in the world. I'll leave it at that.