Finer control over dependencies about google-api-php-client-services HOT 7 CLOSED

Full agree with janhartigan

1. the google api lib is too large , about 16.8M but i just wanna use the simple function
2. the composer update waste much of my time. Here is China, it`s not ~15-30 seconds per composer update, It waste too many minutes per composer update

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Would really like to see an update on this.
My composer has to download 7000+ files just for this code here:

// verify validity of token
$client = new Google_Client(array_merge(['jwt' => $jwt], $config));
$payload = $client->verifyIdToken($request->getData('id_token'));
if(!$payload)
    return false;

This is quite silly and a MASSIVE overkill just like OP wrote.

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This is seriously an embarrassing reality of this repository. Google libraries are usually pretty terrible, tho, so it's not super surprising.

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Thank you for voicing your opinions here. I fully agree.

Because Composer requires a repository per package, we'd have to maintain 140+ repositories to allow for each service to be used individually. This is actually not a big deal IMHO, it could be automated and would be well worth the investment ford what we'd gain in usability. But the extra overhead and is why this hasn't been done yet.

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@bshaffer you could also look into subtree splits. Considering the number of repositories, it may prove unwieldy, but that way you get a repository per package, but you only have to maintain the main monolithic repo. Laravel does this where the main package is laravel/framework but they have a bunch of subsplits for the various Illuminate subdirectories (https://github.com/illuminate/http for example).

You can see how they used to do this here:
https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.1/build/illuminate-split.sh

And a post about how it is done here:
https://www.tomasvotruba.cz/blog/2017/01/31/how-monolithic-repository-in-open-source-saved-my-laziness/

Sorry for the snarky comment above, but in my experience complaining about things to Google is about as effective as shouting at a hurricane. If you guys don't mind simply having an extra 150 repositories, the extra build legwork by you guys could save everyone who uses this repository roughly ~15-30 seconds per composer update (depending on machine specs).

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More information here about subsplit: https://github.com/dflydev/git-subsplit

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Thanks everybody for your input. We are moving newer libraries in this direction as seen in the GCP libraries

Since it is not a change we are going to make to this repo, I am closing this issue.

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