Description
Feature Request
Q | A |
---|---|
New Feature | yes |
RFC | no |
BC Break | no |
Summary
Composer with v2.2 released support for ignoring upper bounds of platform requirements.
To do so, adding the +
suffix to the platform requirement will suffice.
This is quite useful, since --ignore-platform-req=php
will mostly ignore any dependency and thus, depending on the constraint ranges, will also allow older PHP versions which weren't supported previously. This must not be related to laminas components but since laminas does sometimes use transitive dependencies, these dependencies could have a more wider range of supported PHP versions which then might install dependencies in case of --prefer-lowest
which do definitely not support the latest PHP version we are actually trying to test.
--ignore-platform-req: ignore a specific platform requirement(php, hhvm, lib-* and ext-*) and force the installation even if the local machine does not fulfill it. Multiple requirements can be ignored via wildcard. Appending a + makes it only ignore the upper-bound of the requirements. For example, if a package requires php: ^7, then the option --ignore-platform-req=php+ would allow installing on PHP 8, but installation on PHP 5.6 would still fail.