far-blue / dev-linker
A composer plugin to link local working copies of packages
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Type:composer-plugin
Requires
- php: >=5.3.2
- composer-plugin-api: 1.*
Requires (Dev)
- composer/composer: 1.*
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Last update: 2024-10-29 03:48:21 UTC
README
A Composer plugin to link local working copies of packages into a project.
This plugin allows you to override a package definition in composer.json to symlink to a local working copy so you can work on both a project and the packages needed by the project in parallel.
Providence
This plugin was heavily inspired by the piwi/composer-symlinker plugin. Compared to the composer-symlinker plugin, this plugin:
- Does not try to scan local directories for packages
- Does not maintain a distinction between symlinks it manages and others you may have created by hand
- Fixes a number of bugs
- Handled a number of edge cases the original plugin does not cope with
Usage
To use it, just add it as a dependency in your composer.json
:
"require": { "far-blue/dev-linker": "dev-master" } "extra": { "dev-linker": { "local-packages": { "vendor/package1": "/path/to/working/copy", "vendor/package2": "/path/to/working/copy" } } }
The packages being overridden must be valid (i.e. they would still work if you didn't override them).
Note that Composer will only recalculate dependencies when a require or require-dev entry changes. If you wish to switch between a normal package and an overridden package or back again you do need to change the require or require-dev entry for the package before Composer will re-calculate details for it.