composer: Inline Alias not working in 2.0.0-alpha1

My composer.json:

...
        "cakephp/authentication": "^2.0",
        "cakephp/authorization": "^2.0",
        "cakephp/cakephp": "dev-4.next as 4.1.0-RC2",
...

Output of composer diagnose:

Checking composer.json: OK
Checking platform settings: OK
Checking git settings: OK
Checking http connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking https connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking github.com oauth access: OK
Checking disk free space: OK
Checking pubkeys:
Tags Public Key Fingerprint: 57815BA2 7E54DC31 7ECC7CC5 573090D0  87719BA6 8F3BB723 4E5D42D0 84A14642
Dev Public Key Fingerprint: 4AC45767 E5EC2265 2F0C1167 CBBB8A2B  0C708369 153E328C AD90147D AFE50952
OK
Checking composer version: OK
Composer version: 2.0.0-alpha1
PHP version: 7.4.4 - Package overridden via config.platform, actual: 7.4.7-dev
PHP binary path: c:\program files\php\php.exe
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020

When I run this command:

composer update

I get the following output:

  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires cakephp/authentication ^2.0 -> satisfiable by cakephp/authentication[2.3.0].
    - cakephp/authentication 2.3.0 requires cakephp/core ^4.0 -> could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.
  Problem 2
    - Root composer.json requires cakephp/authorization ^2.0 -> satisfiable by cakephp/authorization[2.0.3].
    - cakephp/authorization 2.0.3 requires cakephp/cakephp ^4.0 -> found cakephp/cakephp[dev-4.next] but it does not match the constraint.
...

And I expected this to happen: In Composer 1.10.7 running composer update works fine and installs dev-4.next branch without issues.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 18 (8 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Fix inline aliases not being loaded when extracting dev requirements, fixes #8954 — committed to Seldaek/composer by Seldaek 4 years ago
Fix inline aliases not being loaded when extracting dev requirements, fixes #8954 — committed to Seldaek/composer by Seldaek 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

This works now (built a phar from github clone), and wow, impressive stats from Composer 2!

Composer 1 for this particular app: Memory usage: 1114.79MiB (peak: 3529.46MiB), time: 277.78s

Composer 2 for the same app: Memory usage: 80.84MiB (peak: 824.72MiB), time: 155.29s

(cache and vendor dir cleared before each run)

Thanks!

jaydiablo on Jun 16, 2020

The minimum repro case was something like:

{
    "require": {
        "cakephp/authentication": "2.3.0",
        "cakephp/cakephp": "dev-4.next as 4.1.0-RC2"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "cakephp/bake": "2.1.1"
    }
}

Anyway there is a fix in https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/8982 - thanks for reporting!

Seldaek on Jun 16, 2020

Regardless of whether adding branch alias to CakePHP’s composer.json is a better option or not, claiming that the use of inline aliases in one’s app is a hack is pretty bad choice of words on your part.

ADmad on Jun 10, 2020