To clarify, I use Cake\Core for a few CLI scripts and other mini-projects, especially for InstanceConfigTrait which is really handy.

I also tend to write a lot of Api client classes from time to time, and when I'm in the context of a CakePHP application or plugin I always just extend/utilize Cake\Network\Http\Client because it's awesome. But when I'm not, I have to build an Api connector class from scratch usually.

Is there any way for me to use Cake\Network\Http\Client in some standalone php CLI script (for example)? If there's a way to do this, I would love to. It would allow me to standardize the way I write api connector classes in general, and allow me to more easily merge/cannibalize disparate mini-projects in the future into bigger projects, (usually a bigger CakePHP project). It would also allow me to maybe build Api interfaces and adapters for the things I work on and keep things consistent.

Is it too coupled to CakePHP to be reasonably released as a standalone, unlike some of the other sections of the project that you've decoupled, like Core, ORM, etc?