Installing the development version as a Composer dependency

[aadmathijssen]

Hi,

I noticed that the latest official release/tag of this package is now almost two years old. Looking at the commits on the develop branch, I saw that a incredible amount of work has been done to improve checks for PHP 8.0 and older versions.

So I tried to install the latest dev-develop package as a dependency using the following command:

composer require "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:dev-develop" --with-all-dependencies

However, this gave the following error after running :

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires phpcompatibility/php-compatibility dev-develop -> satisfiable by phpcompatibility/php-compatibility[dev-develop].
    - phpcompatibility/php-compatibility dev-develop requires phpcsstandards/phpcsutils ^1.0 -> found phpcsstandards/phpcsutils[dev-develop, 1.0.0-alpha1, 1.0.0-alpha2, 1.0.0-alpha3, 1.x-dev (alias of dev-develop)] but it does not match your minimum-stability.

This can be resolved by explicitly requiring the phpcsstandards/phpcsutils package with an alpha stability flag:

composer require "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:dev-develop" "phpcsstandards/phpcsutils:@alpha" --with-all-dependencies

The main reason I created this issue was to inform other developers how they can use the development version as a Composer dependency in their project or as a global Composer dependency, so they can benefit from the improvements of this package when analysing their code incompatibilities.

I don't think anything should be changed in this repository (although creating a new stable release would be really nice :-) ), so feel free to close this issue.

[jrfnl]

@aadmathijssen Thanks for leaving this information here. I believe it may well help others who want to use the develop branch while waiting for the 10.0.0 release.

I'm going to leave the issue open for now to improve the chances of other people finding it.

And yes, would be lovely to be able to get back to finishing off the release. If only PHP would slow down for a moment so I could actually get some work done.

[aadmathijssen]

As of 04-01-2023, version 1.0.0 of the phpcsstandards/phpcsutils has been released, so from now the dev-develop version of the PHPCompatibility package can be installed as follows:

composer require --dev --with-all-dependencies "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:dev-develop"

In situations where the package is installed via another dependency (as is the case for the ISAAC PHP_CodeSniffer Standard), this can be done using an inline alias:

composer require --dev --with-all-dependencies "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:dev-develop as 9.3.5"