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22303,"Please parse a ""vendor"" file",remicollet,,"Hi,

I'm working on improving Wordpress packaging in fedora.

One of our need is to allow the use of system libraries instead of bundled copy (forbidden by Guidelines).

I would like to propose, as various projects already, to include a ""vendor"" file.

Goals:
- without this file: no change
- with this file: use constant from it
- allow to define patch for each library (rather than a global WPINC)

Note: this is not the same as wp-settings, which are user configurable settings, while ""vendor"" are system configuration (not to be altered by users)

Work proposal.

(probably) in default-constants.php

if (file_exists('vendor.php')) include_once('vendor.php');

For PHPMailer (for exemple)

if (!defined('WP_PHPMAILER_INC')) define('WP_PHPMAILER_INC',  ABSPATH . WPINC);

And of course, 
require_once WP_PHPMAILER_INC . '/class-smtp.php';

Using this, we could package wordpress in a simpler way, without altering provided sources, just adding this vendor file.

For example, see what have be done in GLPI
https://forge.indepnet.net/projects/glpi/wiki/GlpiPackaging

If you accept this feature, I will work on it and submit the patches (probably various, one per library, as I will progress on this work).
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