Greg Anderson

I agree that this would be a good thing to do.

@thomscode Yes, that's right. The site alias implementation in Drush 9 is fairly well factored-out now, and could easily become an external library. In order to really support what you're...

There's a whole pile of things related to Drupal 8.4.0 + Drush 8 / Drush 9 that are higher priority than the backend invoke rewrite, but yes, we'd like to...

I did make a placeholder project for backend.inc, which I hope to start factoring out soon: https://github.com/consolidation/backend

We were recently discussing this. The motivation is to remove the ability to run Drush 12 as a global install. @weitzman was concerned that we would be increasing the complexity...

> Because then the same php binary is used, with the same configuration, and also the xdebug integration (composer/xdebug-handler) was very easy to implement. Yeah, I understand. In Drush 8...

Thanks for this; however, I think that this PR runs the risk of doing more harm than good. Currently, if there is no core available, then you get a fatal...

@webflo I think that @T2L is probably using drupal-scaffold with Pantheon. Currently, our process is to include drupal/core directly, using the version provided by drupal.org; however, we pull our scaffold...

The semantics of what composer is are immaterial here; if a tool of any type fails to do it's job, it should return with a non-zero exit code. An inscrutable...

LGTM. 👍 @derhasi @webflo Any feedback?