--- title: More dependency considerations | daily.dev description: Following up on a previous post about PHP dependency hygiene, the author responds to criticism from Paragon IE (makers of paragonie/sodium_compat) who argued... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/more-dependency-considerations-rovszqxry twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: More dependency considerations | daily.dev og:description: Following up on a previous post about PHP dependency hygiene, the author responds to criticism from Paragon IE (makers of paragonie/sodium_compat) who argued... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/more-dependency-considerations-rovszqxry og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RoVSZQxRy.png og:image:alt: More dependency considerations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # More dependency considerations **[stitcher.io](https://daily.dev/sources/stitcher)** · 5 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Following up on a previous post about PHP dependency hygiene, the author responds to criticism from Paragon IE (makers of paragonie/sodium_compat) who argued that removing sodium_compat from PHP 7.2+ projects could leave some users vulnerable. The author counters that systems explicitly opting out of ext-sodium are edge cases and that the responsibility for requiring a compat library should fall on those specific systems, not on upstream libraries. The core argument is that sodium_compat was always meant to be a temporary shim, and the PHP community should prefer built-in extensions over PHP-based cryptographic polyfills for better dependency hygiene and security. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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