viv 0.15 to 0.21

It's been a while since I last wrote about Vivace, my Composer alternative (a PHP package manager). There have been seven releases since, so let's get you up to speed. The goalposts of the project have shifted a little. Viv started as a viability test to see if rewriting Composer in Rust would bring benefits. When that turned out to be the case, I wanted it to become a faster Composer with a few extra features. Viv 0.14 is the ultimate version of that, and it's very fast. I'm now more interested in what else is possible: if we are not beholden to Composer's lock file and vendor setup, and just want to build a correct, working PHP application from the dependencies provided, what else can we do? Using viv, you are no longer affected by these common developer gotchas: Automatic conflict resolution (0.20) If you've worked with Composer for any length of time with two or more coders, you've encountered lock merge conflicts. I've analysed 355 merge conflicts from real projects I've been…