Issue with components install

[hstanleycrow]

Hi, first, thanks for your work.
I am making some tests, and the installer works in a half, the components (jquery, jqueryui, font-awesome) has been installed on vendor directory, bootstrap, bootstrap-sass and datatables are installes as i expected, in root/resources, could you help me to find the error? if i can fix this, i will not require to use bower or anything else :)

here is my composer.json
"require" : {
"php": ">=5.3.0",
"mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer": "1.0.*",
"components/jqueryui" : ">=1.11.4",
"components/font-awesome" : "dev-master",
"twbs/bootstrap-sass" : ">=3.3.5",
"twbs/bootstrap" : "~4.0",
"datatables/datatables" : ">=1.10.9"
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
},
"extra": {
"installer-paths": {
"public/resources/components/jqueryui": ["components/jqueryui"],
"public/resources/components/font-awesome": ["components/font-awesome"],
"public/resources/bootstrap": ["twbs/bootstrap"],
"public/resources/bootstrap-sass": ["twbs/bootstrap-sass"],
"public/resources/datatables": ["datatables/datatables"]
}
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true

Thank you

[mnsami]

hello .. sorry for the late reply, but currently i'm heading off to my wedding vacations and i'll be available again after the 14th of October and I'll look into deep for all the comments you asked and pointed out.

thanks

[mnsami]

Hello @hstanleycrow

Simply all of those packages you want to custom install them, doesn't have the right package type that is supported by composer, which are mentioned here

https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#type

[Mariyo]

Hello,
isnt there any workaround for unsupported types? Kind of skip process...?

[mnsami]

hello @Mariyo ,

Unfortunately not at the current moment, unless you fork it and implement your own package type installer and plugin, which do the support for very specific package types.

I'm happy to discuss a solution, because it will also affect composer workflows.

[mnsami]

Reporter is not responding, I'm closing the ticket.

[sylfabre]

@mnsami I would like to discuss a solution :-)
I use your plugin to put jquery / jqueryui / ckeditor in a public folder

[sylfabre]

@mnsami I don't understand why you limit depending on package type and not on installer-paths values to select package with specific location

[mnsami]

@sylfabre hello, I would like to hear your solution, and to answer your question, each package type composer handles it differently, I experienced that myself and I don't want to break that handling, my aim through this plugin is to extend it.

Let me give you an example, some of the pear packages are initially a tar or a zip file which I tried before, if I used them with a different package type, they will be only downloaded and not extracted.

Second, if all package types are the same, I don't think composer would have differentiated them in first place.

Check also the https://packagist.org/packages/composer/installers plugin.

[sylfabre]

@mnsami I don't know how composer works exactly si I don't know about packages that need to be extracted first but I will use robloach/component-installer to set my specific path.