Installation issues

[khendrickx]

When running the php artisan vendor:publish command, the view, translation and migration files are copied every single time, not only the first time.
Copied Directory [\vendor\riari\laravel-forum\src\views] To [\resources\views\vendor\forum] Copied Directory [\vendor\riari\laravel-forum\src\translations] To [\resources\lang\vendor\forum] Copied Directory [\vendor\riari\laravel-forum\src\migrations] To [\database\migrations]

Also, after running composer update, warnings are thrown notifying the migration classes already exists in the vendor folder.
Warning: Ambiguous class resolution, "CreateForumTableCategories" was found in both "$baseDir . '/database/migrations/2014_05_19_151759_create_forum_table_categories.php" and D:\Dropbox\Website\BIB\v3\vendor\riari\laravel-forum\src\migrations\2014_05_19_151759_create_forum_table_categories.php", the first will be used.

[Riari]

I think that publishing behaviour might be normal - or at least I hope it is, since I used the publishes() method as per the docs. It's not supposed to overwrite existing files, so if it's doing that in your case then something else must be wrong.

About the migrations, the ones in the package are autoloaded already, so it currently doesn't make sense for them to be published anyway. I'll remove the classmap key from autoload in composer.json to rectify that (since it currently only contains the migrations path).

[khendrickx]

I compared this package with others and on a fast first view I couldn't notice a difference with the usage of publishes(). However, other packages seems to copy their files just once, not at every composer update. I'm not yet entirely into packages, so I don't have an idea where to look for the problem but some others might?

[Riari]

Addressed the autoloading issue in the latest release. I'm still not sure about the issue with publishes(), but I'll leave this open until I can figure it out or someone is able to offer input. Thanks.

[morloderex]

The publishes funktion workes just perfectly but it's missing the translations files i have made a PR to correct this.. :)

[gwcoyle]

I just tried to run php artisan vendor:publish

Upon doing so I get the following error

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
parse error, expecting "identifier (T_STRING)"' or"\ (T_NS_SEPARATOR)"'

Any ideas?

[Gummibeer]

the bouncer package does it with a custom check:

protected function publishMigrations()
    {
        if (class_exists('CreateBouncerTables')) {
            return;
        }

        $timestamp = date('Y_m_d_His', time());

        $stub = __DIR__.'/../migrations/create_bouncer_tables.php';

        $target = $this->app->databasePath().'/migrations/'.$timestamp.'_create_bouncer_tables.php';

        $this->publishes([$stub => $target], 'migrations');
    }

this allows the dev to rename the migration (the date) to bring it in right order with his own ones.