New, autoloader-centric file structure

[szepeviktor]

Aka. for machines only

repo/
├─ generated/
│  ├─ src/
│  ├─ functions.php

• all classes go (generated or copied) in src directory as per PSR-4
• all functions go (generated or copied) into functions.php file
• keep generated/functionsList.php
• deprecated things get a PHPDoc tag

/**
 * @deprecated Reason, date, version ...
 */

Resulting Composer config.

    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Safe\\": [
                "generated/src/"
            ]
        },
        "files": [
            "generated/functions.php"
        ]
    },

All other directories could be excluded from distribution.

Would you support a PR that modifies the generator?

[szepeviktor]

@Kharhamel I understand it may hurt your feelings.

[szepeviktor]

Asked how to do it: rectorphp/rector#7131

[Kharhamel]

I am not sure I understand the link with rector but yes, that new structure looks good, i would definitly like a PR to do that, especially if it solves issues like #253.

However I am thinking really hard about generating several directories of functions, to be loaded depending of the php version of the client. Do you think we could do something like this:

repo/
├─ generated-lastest/
│  ├─ src/
│  ├─ functions.php
├─ generated-7.4/
│  ├─ src/
│  ├─ functions.php

And then the autoload config in composer would reference a single entrypoint file that would redirect us to the correct folder depending on the php version?

[szepeviktor]

to be loaded depending of the php version of the client

That is done by keeping one git branch for each PHP version.
At least many other packages do it this way.

[szepeviktor]

I am not sure I understand the link with rector

That Rector issue is about automatically combining many .php files into one functions.php.