Cli Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for resource/asset resolution. Puli (and its CLI) is an early attempt at giving PHP packages a shared, URI-like namespace for non-PHP assets. The CLI's command surface — publish, list, inspect, type — is effectively a requirements document for any internal asset-publishing tool you might build. Review it before greenlighting a custom solution; it will save you a discovery sprint, but not a dependency decision.
• Legacy modernization scope. If a portfolio product is pinned to Puli (typically Symfony 2.x/Laravel 4–5-era code), the CLI defines the operational workflow your team must replace: publishing package assets into web/, listing installed packages and their resource paths. Use it to size migration tickets.
• Use-case validation, not feature roadmap. Useful as evidence that PHP developers genuinely wanted per-package asset ownership without committing vendor directories to the web root. That need is now met by Vite/asset-packagist/Flex recipes — so the roadmap conclusion is "needs exists, this implementation is superseded," not "adopt."
• Dependency-audit / M&A due diligence. A concrete example of ecosystem rot: a 51-star, last-released-2016 MIT tool still reachable via Composer. Good calibration case for supply-chain review criteria.
• Not a decision it supports: anything greenfield. Do not let the CLI's existence imply a maintained path forward.

When to Consider This Package

Consider only when all of the following hold:

• You are inheriting or maintaining an existing Puli-enabled codebase and need the CLI to publish assets or inspect the repository during a migration.
• Your runtime is PHP 5.5–7.x with no near-term upgrade plan (Puli predates PHP 8; expect incompatibilities).
• You need to read its behavior as a reference for how path resolution, publish targets, and package discovery were modeled.
• The work is time-boxed and internal — an archaeology task, not a shipped dependency.

Look elsewhere — decisively — when:

• The project is greenfield Laravel or Symfony. Use Vite, Laravel Mix, Symfony Flex recipes, or asset-packagist + Composer plugins. These are maintained, PHP 8-compatible, and have active security response.
• You need security patching, PHP 8.x support, PSR/Symfony version currency, or an SLA. Last release 2016-01-14; the parent project Puli is itself retired and its concepts relocated to successor packages. There is no maintainer to escalate to.
• You need CI reproducibility across modern PHP matrices. Composer resolution will likely fail or require --ignore-platform-reqs hacks.
• You are evaluating it because it "looks like a fit" from star count or keyword match. 51 stars and a 2016 release is a disqualified signal, not a qualified one.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: This is a historical artifact, not a candidate technology. It is a 2016 command-line tool for a retired PHP asset-management system, with no maintainer and no PHP 8 support. Recommending it would create a security and upgrade liability for zero differentiating capability — the same job is now done by tooling we already run. My recommendation is a formal "do not adopt," and a bounded remediation plan if it is already somewhere in our dependency graph.

To engineering: Treat it as documentation. Its command set (publish package assets to a public directory, list packages and their resource paths) is a clean statement of the problem the modern bundler ecosystem solves. If you find it in a repo, the migration is mechanical: Puli paths are declared in puli.json/Composer metadata, so you can enumerate them and remap to Vite entry points or public asset directories. Budget this as tech-debt paydown, not feature work. If you are considering building internal resource-resolution tooling, spend an hour reading this CLI's interface — then build against current tooling.