far-blue/dev-linker

A composer plugin to link local working copies of packages

Composer dev-linker

A Composer plugin to link local working copies of packages into a project., _(*1)

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., _(*2)

Providence

This plugin was heavily inspired by the piwi/composer-symlinker plugin. Compared to the composer-symlinker plugin, this plugin:, _(*3)

• 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:, _(*4)

"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)., _(*5)

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., _(*6)