Composer 2.0 error: mikey179/vfsStream is invalid

[philsturgeon]

Hey folks. Long time since I've posted here, but I've just found an issue using CodeIgniter 3 with Composer 2.

composer create-project CodeIgniter/framework ci3-php8
Creating a "CodeIgniter/framework" project at "./ci3-php8"
Installing codeigniter/framework (3.1.11)
  - Downloading codeigniter/framework (3.1.11)
  - Installing codeigniter/framework (3.1.11): Extracting archive
Created project in /Users/phil/src/cloudbeds/ci3-php8

  [RuntimeException]
  require-dev.mikey179/vfsStream is invalid, it should not contain uppercase characters. Please us
  e mikey179/vfsstream instead.

I switched my composer.json to this and it worked fine:

"require-dev": {
        "mikey179/vfsstream": "1.1.*",

Looks like this was changed a long time ago in develop, so perhaps somebody could tag up a release real quick?

@narfbg you still here? :D

[narfbg]

Yes, I am not nearly as involved nowadays, but I'm still around. Good to see from you Phil. :)

develop is actually supposed to become 3.2, but of course we should tag the next 3.1.x sometime soon ... It's been awhile and more than enough changes have been accumulated.

[philsturgeon]

Thank you! I think a quick 3.1.12 or 3.2 would be useful even if it’s not full PHP 8 compatibility it’s solving a lot of problems.

[yurii-github]

hello guys

I've been assigned to a project on CodeIgniter3 and I wanted to ask you if you need and would accept my help by upgrading CodeIgniter3 so it can run on PHP 7.4 - 8.1 ?

At the moment I see these options for myself:

• private repository of the framework with my patches
• maintain 'system' folder inside project
• make PRs to get new official release
• use some patching tweaks after composer install

regards

[gxgpet]

Hi @yurii-github,

Thank you for using CI 3! The framework is already working with PHP 7.*, has a PR for adding PHP 8.0 support, and I'm planning to submit a PHP 8.1 compatibility PR, as well, soon.

But yes, you can submit any patches and/or fixes, too. In the end, that's why this is an open-source project. :D

[philsturgeon]

@gxgpet can we start merging some of these PRs that add PHP 8 compatability? I combined various PRs to make a mega one, but there's a random error I don't know how to fix. Would you take a look? #6074

[yurii-github]

Hi @yurii-github,

Thank you for using CI 3! The framework is already working with PHP 7.*, has a PR for adding PHP 8.0 support, and I'm planning to submit a PHP 8.1 compatibility PR, as well, soon.

But yes, you can submit any patches and/or fixes, too. In the end, that's why this is an open-source project. :D

nice, thank you! Then my plan is next. I have started to investigate codebase and I see there are some unreleased changes under version '3.1.12'. Thankfully to simplicity of the framework I will take ownership of it in my project 'system' folder and do my fixes there, meanwhile monitoring your changes.

in the end of project's migration journey I will produce several PRs back to framework's repository.. it looks like a win-win situation.

have a nice day!