Abandoned use of composer to install extensions

Dockerfile

@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@ ARG EXT_BASE=/var/www/html/extensions
 ARG COMPOSER=composer.local.json
 
 
-####
-# Install composer
-# ================
-# Note that we need to just get the composer script directly rather than use
-# Debian packages. The base image is Docker's php-apache library image, which
-# builds PHP from source rather than install from Packages. Hence many 
-# required packages are missing (and should stay missing.) 
-####
-RUN curl https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar -o /usr/bin/composer &&  \
-    chmod a+x /usr/bin/composer
-
 
 #####
 # Mediawiki Language Extension Bundle
@@ -33,10 +22,10 @@ RUN curl https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar -o /usr/bin/composer &&  \
 # - UniversalLanguageSelector
 #####
 
-RUN composer require --no-update mediawiki/babel:2024.07  && \
+RUN cd extensions && \ 
-    composer require --no-update mediawiki/cldr:2024.07 && \
+    git clone --depth=1 --branch=REL1_42 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Babel.git Babel && \
-    composer require --no-update mediawiki/translate:2024.07 && \
+    git clone --depth=1 --branch=REL1_42 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-cldr.git cldr && \
-    cd extensions && \ 
+    git clone --depth=1 --branch=REL1_42 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate.git Translate && \
     git clone --depth=1 --branch=REL1_42 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CleanChanges.git CleanChanges && \
     git clone --depth=1 --branch=shavian https://git.nordgren.vip/bryce/mediawiki-extensions-UniversalLanguageSelector.git UniversalLanguageSelector