[DX] Tools curation about toolbox

[jakzal]

I'm pleased to announce Toolbox v1.0.0 was just released. It provides some of the above wish list items.

[dkarlovi]

@jakzal I saw the release. 🥇 \o/

About the remaining ones, I agree with your point:

it's a small step from providing instructions how to enable a tool, to enabling It automatically

but still probably best to introduce that first step, even to just see the use cases more clearly. Maybe the auto-enable part could be driven by Rector (which we planned to add anyway)?

I still think marking tools broken / abandoned + suggest alternatives would be beneficial to end users as it gives them actionable information.

(BTW amazing work here, I'd love to help, but we're bit stuck in the phpqa -> toolbox -> phpqa transition so I guess nothing to do until it's finalized)

[jakzal]

but still probably best to introduce that first step, even to just see the use cases more clearly. Maybe the auto-enable part could be driven by Rector (which we planned to add anyway)?

I'm more worried about maintenance both these steps will bring rather than the amount of work these features will introduce ;)

I still think marking tools broken / abandoned + suggest alternatives would be beneficial to end users as it gives them actionable information

It's just a matter of tagging tools, and then excluding broken ones from installation.

If we decide to remove a tool, I would also suggest using a tag, so the tool would remain on the list for historical reasons, but would not be installed.

[dkarlovi]

I'm more worried about maintenance both these steps will bring rather than the amount of work these features will introduce ;)

I view it as "inline documentation", as in "what's the least amount of information required to use a tool?"

Example: if you want to enable PHPStan's extension, use $snippet, all other info is available upstream.

Maybe auto-management is a bit too much for now.

It's just a matter of tagging tools, and then excluding broken ones from installation.

Agreed.

If we decide to remove a tool, I would also suggest using a tag, so the tool would remain on the list for historical reasons, but would not be installed.

Agreed here too. 👍

[jakzal]

It's been almost two years since the last comment and not much has happened. I'm going to assume it's good the way it is now ;)