Configuration with composer.json fails

[d3mo17]

I cannot install the package as described in the readme.md. I get the following output from "composer install":

"
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- The requested package mnabil/composer-custom-directory-installer could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.

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.
"

Maybe it could be a Problem caused by fcd45b4?

[mnsami]

I consume it in several of my projects and and I don't have this problem, may be you can post your composer.json for further details?

[d3mo17]

Now I have a "workaround". I don't know why the wildcard in minimum-stability fails, but if I replace

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.3",
    "mnabil/composer-custom-directory-installer": "*"
}

by

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.3",
    "mnabil/composer-custom-directory-installer": "dev-master"
}

the installation succeds - weird !?!

[mnsami]

may be you have the minimum-stability explicitly in your composer.json, then you need to define a version for the packages you are consuming, it is weird!!

can you send me your version of composer.json ?

may be i can fix it for later? I would appreciate it :)

[d3mo17]

Sure - here you are:

{
"config": {
"vendor-dir": "php/lib"
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "git@github.com:mnabil/composer-installer-plugin.git"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3",
"mnabil/composer-custom-directory-installer": "*"
}
}

This was my first attempt that went wrong. Thank you for your support!

[mnsami]

Well, I spotted the issue thankfully to you :)

since my package doesn't define a stable version, and according to the composer documentation

This defines the default behavior for filtering packages by stability. This defaults to stable, so if you rely on a dev package, you should specify it in your file to avoid surprises

so, it will look for stable package version.

I will fix that :)

thank you