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Tobias Gaertner
Tobias Gaertner

Reputation: 1184

How to force to install an "incompatible" TYPO3-Extension with composer?

Lets say I use TYPO3 7.6 Composer installation. Now I run into following problem:

An Extension in the latest version defines in ext_emconf.php a required TYPO3-Version 

'typo3' => '6.0.0-6.2.99',

I tested the Extension already in TYPO3 7 without any problems. In a none composer installation I could install the extension via extension manager and answer the warning with "I know what I'm doing" BUT with composer I can not install the Extension!

I mean yes I could

or what?

Is there a way to force composer to install this "incompatible" Extension somehow?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1825

Answers (1)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 7016

It is not possbile to force an install by composer if the requirements are not met. But there are still a few tricks. You can require TYPO3 7LTS and tell composer to threat it as 6.2. But this of course means that other extensions might now be incompatible. This can be acieved in your composer.json by

"require": {
   "typo3/cms": "^7.6 as 6.2.31"
}

If the extension has a development branch that is already combatible and only the release is missing you can require the branch instead of a release. If the extension is registered on packagist.org that would be

"require": {
   "vendor/extension": "dev-<branchname>"
}

If it is not registered on packagist but has a composer.json file you can add the repository of the extension to your root composer.json to make the branch requireable.

"repositories": [
    {"type": "git", "url": "https://github.com/vendor/extension.git"}
]

But the best way is of course to make the extension compatible and if it already is, to ask for an official release that supports TYPO3 7LTS.

Upvotes: 4

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