WordPress / WordPress/wordpress-playground

Remove pre-built files from the repository

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Description

There are some pre-built files shipped in this repository:

Building them from scratch requires additional setup and takes a long time, which is a bad experience for a new contributor who just wants to clone the project and publish their first PR.

At the same time, shipping these files is a burden – they change, pollute the commit logs, and won't play very well with a support for multiple PHP and WordPress version.

It would be nice to have a separate package (or maybe even a repository?) for these pre-built binaries, and source them from there on the initial build.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing how the repository currently ships the last four WordPress versions, WebAssembly PHP, and pre-built PHP dependencies. Evaluate whether a separate package or repository can provide these binaries during the initial build. Done means the repository no longer ships the pre-built files and a documented build path sources them successfully.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wasm, wordpress
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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