Unable to install with composer and minimum-stability > "dev"

[marmotz]

Here is my project's composer.json file:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "atoum/atoum-bundle" : "dev-master",
    },
    "minimum-stability": "alpha"
}

Impossible to install AtoumBundle:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
   Problem 1
     - Installation request for atoum/atoum-bundle dev-master -> satisfiable by atoum/atoum-bundle dev-master.
     - atoum/atoum-bundle dev-master requires atoum/atoum dev-master -> no matching package found.

Obviously, if I set "dev" to minimum-stability, all is working...

I tried to update AtoumBundle's composer.json like this, but nothing change...

{
    "require": {
        "atoum/atoum": "@dev"
    }
}

So, the solutions I found was to add "atoum/atoum": "@dev" in my composer.json or put minimum-stability to "dev". The second solution does not suit me, so I do the first one...

If you found an other solution, could you please implement this. Else you should update documentation.

[stephpy]

Updating locally your AtoumBundle composer.json would not change anything because it referes to remote composer.json file.

It would be great to works with minimum-stability : alpha ... really ... but a big part of bundles don't tag them bundles, you'll have a lot of problems i guess with this minimum-stability tag ;)

But if we found a solution, we'll implement this on atoum bundle composer.json. Thanks for this return.

[marmotz]

Yes, sure, i forgot to tell that I add a "repository" in composer.json to test it :)

[stephpy]

I guess the ROOT composer.json is able to change the minimum-stability requirement but not childs, it would be too easy to have minimum-stability: release and require a package which make a call to a repository@dev

Imo it's a normal behavior. atoum is not released, by this way, in your root application, you have to require it with @dev tag or the minimum-stability to dev.

[marmotz]

If it's the standard way, so you should write it in README :)

[stephpy]

You are right :)