"Package Abandoned" error message

[fmarangi]

When trying to install the Composer Installer via packagist, composer outputs the following error message:

Package magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.

If you specify http://packages.firegento.com under repositories no error message is displayed.

[davidverholen]

thats because there was a broken(!) version of the installer in the packagist repository, but it is now abandoned. So its only in the firegento repository now.

So you should alwys include the firegento repository as long as no maintainer lists the package at packagist.org

[oviliz]

Hi @fmarangi Francesco. Hod did you managed to add http://packages.firegento.com to the repositories? I'm trying to install the composer following those instructions https://github.com/bluevisiontec/GoogleShoppingApi and I've got as well the "abandoned" message.

[Flyingmana]

composer.phar config -g repositories.firegento composer http://packages.firegento.com adds the repository globally, so you dont need to add this for every project

[oviliz]

Thank you. I've done that but nothing seems changed.

I've tried to add this into the composer.json but still the installer abandoned message. I believe I'm doing something wrong. "repositories": [ { "type": "composer", "url": "http://packages.firegento.com" } ],

[davidverholen]

did you add the repository to your root composer.json? Repositories are only read from there

[oviliz]

Yes David, the composer.json is on the root while the composer.phar file is on the bin folder as stated on the indicate instructions link.

[davidverholen]

ok, so you have something like this:

{
    "require": {
        "magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "*"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "packages.firegento.com"
        }
    ]
}

you could try to clear the composer cache (composer clearcache). maybe it's still installed from there

[Flyingmana]

fixed by taking over and activate again the packagist entry