How can I install composer packages with drush make?

Question

How does one include composer package in a drush make file?

The more general answer, the better. There's already a composer drush module allowing drush dl to handle composer packages, but that requires a shell command for every dependency.

Given our future use of Symfony, composer and other Symfony bundles is likely to become more important in the future.

Answer 1

You should use yoursite.make to download the Drupal module and composer.json for composer.

There is the Composer module that integrates Composer with Drush.

I hope that soon .make is going to disappear, replaced by composer.json; for that to come true, some issues need to be resolved, such as version number.

Composer packages are stored in the git repository; you can't use a composer package, but you can download the code. For example, for https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/symfony you can use the following.

libraries[symfony][download][type] = "git"
libraries[symfony][download][url] = " https://github.com/symfony/symfony.git"
libraries[symfony][destination] = "lib/symfony/"

Composer can build stuff recursively; of course, this will not work here.

See http://drush.ws/docs/make.txt.

Their is also https://github.com/composer/installers than can do the invert (install drupal module with composer).