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Creating a Composer Package with its own Dependency
I'm trying to set up composer for a package I maintain called Zymurgy:CM, which is on github but not on packagist. I created a 'composer' branch which has the following composer.json file:
{
"name": "zymurgy/zymurgy-cm",
"type": "library",
"description": "Zymurgy:CM Content Management",
"license":"MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Vic Metcalfe",
"email": "vic@acm.org",
"homepage": "http://vicmetcalfe.com",
"role": "Developer"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.0",
"minmb/phpmailer": "dev-master"
}
}
If I run composer install from this project it installs phpmailer no problem.
Now I want to use my package in a test project, so I set up a custom repository to point to my github, and that on its own works fine, but with the above dependency on phpmailer installing my package fails. Here's the test project's composer.json:
{
"name": "test/test",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "http://github.com/zymsys/zymurgy-cm"
}
],
"require": {
"zymurgy/zymurgy-cm": "dev-composer"
}
}
When I do a composer install with this, I get the following error:
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
- Installation request for zymurgy/zymurgy-cm dev-composer -> satisfiable by zymurgy/zymurgy-cm dev-composer.
- zymurgy/zymurgy-cm dev-composer requires minmb/phpmailer dev-master -> no matching package found.
Potential causes:
- A typo in the package name
- The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.
Read <http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems.
I followed the above links, but I'm still missing something.
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