Wp-cli: Have a specific `type` for WP-CLI packages

[schlessera]

I recommend having the WP-CLI packages be regrouped under a common Composer type, like wp-cli-package.

In this way, you can provide a Composer plugin to define a custom installer for this type, which allows you to exert more control over the installation process (see Setting up and using custom installers ).

[danielbachhuber]

I recommend having the WP-CLI packages be regrouped under a common Composer type

Does this have to be something package authors remember to do, or is it something we can enforce?

[schlessera]

This is done by the package authors, by adding the type key to their composer.json.

As an example, this is used for WordPress plugins, by setting "type" => "wordpress-plugin" in the plugin's composer.json. Together with https://github.com/composer/installers, this makes sure that plugins get installed into the wp-content/plugins folder instead of the vendor folder.

[danielbachhuber]

Cool. I think we need to do three things:

• [x] Update the docs.
• [x] Ensure wp scaffold package includes the type.
• [x] Submit a bunch of PRs against packages in the package index.

[danielbachhuber]

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