Pure PHP implementation of Patch (avoid a dependency from the Operating System)

[marclaporte]

As a spin off #93 (comment) , copying the comment below:

About "Research: Pure PHP implementation of patch?" -> The patch utility is not always available and thus, we'd like this to be handled by cweagans/composer-patches (directly or indirectly)

Would this work?
https://github.com/FMaz008/UnifiedDiffPatcher

Are you aware of any other suitable libs? Anything already on Packagist.org?

Thanks!

[marclaporte]

@cweagans I would love to know your thoughts on this. Thanks!

[cweagans]

i thought about it a bit (did you and i talk about it on IRC a few years ago?). I'm not sure this should go into composer-patches itself, but my intent is to make it possible to extend the methods by which a patch can be applied to a particular package in 2.x (which is currently vaporware). Composer has a way for plugins to extend other plugins, so it should be a relatively straightforward thing to do this.

Most people just use patch or git though.

[cweagans]

main supports pluggable patchers now, so this can be done outside of the main plugin. I'm also kicking around the idea of using https://justine.lol/ape.html to compile GNU patch and distribute it either with the plugin or with a separate plugin that extends this one.

[marclaporte]

For the record, related ideas:

• Clear error-message if patch is not available #489
• Distribute GNU patch #474