[eluser]besson3c[/eluser]
I'd really like a solid way to share some of my libraries and helpers and things, and I'd also like an easy way to extend my CI projects with third-party components that would include some sort of updater to keep these up-to-date, thus reducing the amount of work necessary to build an app and having various widgets consumed and peer reviewed.
The Yahoo User Interface (YUI) lazy loader is brilliant. With it, I simply include a list of widgets that I want to use, it fetches them from the Yahoo CDN in real time and resolves dependencies, only fetching an item once in case it is called multiple times. Obviously since PHP is not asynchronous like Javascript it wouldn't make sense for it to work the same way, but perhaps more like RubyGems or something in being super easy to install and update?
Are there any plans or has there been any discussion pertaining to this sort of thing? Some sort of strategy for encouraging third-party stuff would be great, I think...
