ability to use recent versions of symfony components

[pborreli]

when I change version of Symfony Components in composer.json of my Silex application (created with create-project fabpot/silex-skeleton) composer can't upgrade them :

- silex/silex dev-master requires symfony/http-kernel 2.1.*

I'd like to be able to use 2.2.* or maybe master version of the components, how can I do ?

[davedevelopment]

Silex is dependant on 2.1.*, so it's probably not recommended, but you could give it a try by using a Require Inline Alias in composer? Even if this doesn't work, I'd still consider this ticket a non-issue until Silex moves on to the next version of Symfony.

Perhaps we could have a ticket requesting a tagged release of silex, and then move the master branch on to 2.2?

[bamarni]

@davedevelopment : as Symfony 2.2 components are dev versions, >=2.1,<2.3-dev would allow people like @pborreli to grab the latest component versions by setting the minimum-stability to dev on their project, while it would still require 2.1.* by default for other people.

[igorw]

Indeed, we could even change the constraint to something along the lines of >=2.1,<3.0-dev.

Just curious, which features from 2.2 are you using?

[davedevelopment]

@bamarni @igorw good points :)

[pborreli]

@igorw I'm using the new Progress helper from symfony/console

[pborreli]

I'm not confident in making myself a PR as i don't have any way to test the packagist/composer setup. ping @igorw

[stof]

@igorw for now, I would suggest >=2.1,<2.3-dev. Putting 3.0-dev as upper bound would be true if we were sure about the BC. But until 2.3 is released, some BC breaks can still occur sometimes.

[pborreli]

thanks !