as a programmer occasionally working with BaseX I find the current "way of life" of the client libraries rather inconvenient:

1. nowadays most programming languages have some sort of packaging system (PHP's composer, Ruby's gems, Python's pip etc.), but the official BaseX client libraries are not released to these and I have to copy the files "manually" to each project using them

2. the libraries are rather minimal, lacking proper documentation and test suite. (Yes, they are arguably small, but still.)

Have you considered releasing them as packages (which would, at least for PHP, require a separate git repository)? Or do you prefer to have individuals who have use for such packages to create and maintain them themselves?

Regards,

Jakub