Recursive Dependencies

[rufinus]

Hi,

I have a composer.json looking like this:

{
    "name": "zendframework/skeleton-application",
    "description": "Skeleton Application for ZF2",
    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
    "keywords": [
        "framework",
        "zf2"
    ],
    "homepage": "http://framework.zend.com/",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "http://packages.******t"
        }
    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.3",
        "zendframework/zendframework": "2.0.*",
    "zendframework/zend-developer-tools" : "dev-master",
    "cwd/common" : "dev-master",
        "cwd/admin" : "dev-master",
        "ext-intl": "*",
        "doctrine/doctrine-module": "@dev",
        "doctrine/doctrine-orm-module": "@dev"
    },
    "require-dev": {

    }
}

cwd/comon has the following in his composer.json:

{
        "name" : "cwd/Common",
        "type" : "library",
        "description" : "ZF2 Libaries used by CWD Modules",
        "keywords" : ["php", "zf2", "zend framework2", "common"],
        "homepage" : "http://www.******t",
        "license" : "Commercial Other",
        "support" : {
                "email" : "support@****"
        },
        "authors": [
                {
                "name": "Ludwig",
                "email": "lr@***",
                "homepage": "http://www.*****/",
                "role": "Developer"
                }
        ],
        "repositories": [
            {
                "type" : "composer",
                "url" : "http://packages.cwd.at/"
            },{
                "type" : "pear",
                "url" : "pear.firephp.org",
                "vendor-alias" : "firephp"
            }
        ],
        "minimum-stability": "dev",
        "require": {
                "php": ">=5.3.0",
                "zendframework/zendframework": ">=2.0",
                "firephp/FirePHPCore" : "*"
        },
        "autoload" : {
            "psr-0" : {
                "cwdCommon" : "src/"
            },
        "classmap" : [
            "./Module.php"
        ]
    }
}

the firephp pear package is never loaded/installed if i move the repository and the required line up to the "main" composer.json its working as expected.

What do i wrong? Isn't composer supposed to resolve recursive dependencies?

TIA Rufinus

[stof]

It resolve recursive dependencies. However, repository definitions can only be provided by the root package, as documented here. The explanation about this choice is also in the doc

[rufinus]

thanks for the pointers, i somehow missed this page in the documentation.