Table output

[soullivaneuh]

Maybe a table output will be better:

Package	Installed	Latest	Depends
symfony/symfony	2.3.30	2.7.5	~
foo/bar	1.0.4	2.0.5	awesome/package (~1.0)

Issue composer/composer#4487 is needed for this.

[jakoch]

Hey Sullivan!

Would it be possible to generate the following bower list like output instead of a table?

I think a renderer base class (buffering the data) and using adapters could make sense.
You could then implement a TableRenderer (using Symfony\Console Table helper) and a TreeRenderer.

What do you think?

[soullivaneuh]

Could be a second option indeed but we have to be sure the output is not confusing by specified that children tree is dependencies.

Do you have some suggestions of library to render this kind of output easily?

[jakoch]

Indeed, listing the dependencies could be confusing, especially if you render a really large set of dependencies.

A library, hmm lets see.. this could fit: https://github.com/pbergman/tree-printer
It stays in the context of Symfony/Console.
I haven't worked with it, but it allows to define the "ascii art" forming the tree.
And it should be possible to tweak the settings to render a more compact tree.
https://github.com/pbergman/tree-printer#setformats

[stephanvierkant]

Here is a screenshot from VersionEye.com:

I really like this view. An output like bower list can be very confusing. I think this package should show version numbers, not a dependencies tree.