#468 composer will not provide "externals" dependencies

[Bart Reunes]

After requiring "vrana/adminer" with composer, the compile.php script will complain that the gitmodules in externals are not found. Composer is not resolving these dependencies. Could it be possible to make those dependencies available through composer, or add them to the composer file that is provided in the main project?

[Bart Reunes]

Do you need some extra information for this? Anything I should check?

[AlberT]

I'm encountering the same issue ..

I suggest to avoid use of subpackages, as they are not necessary using composer.
Please make this packages a requirement in composer.json .. at the moment it seems hard to use adminer as a custom project dependancy

Thank you in advance

PS:
just for reference. A workaround until this issue will be fixed can be the following code in composer.json of your application:

"repositories": [
{
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "vrana/adminer",
                "version": "4.2.4",
                "dist": {
                    "url": "https://www.adminer.org/static/download/4.2.4/adminer-4.2.4.php",
                    "type": "file"
                },
                "source": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/vrana/adminer",
                    "type": "git",
                    "reference": "releases/tag/v4.2.4"
                }
            }
        }
]

[Jakub Vrána]

Supporting .gitmodules by Composer seems like the better thing to do.

[pimcore-builds]

Well, that's not really a solution, .gitmodules is still not supported by Composer.
If this isn't getting fixed, the composer.json should be removed as this package isn't function properly without the external dependencies.

[Jakub Vrána]

Adminer works quite OK even without dependencies present. Syntax highlighting doesn't work and JS minification doesn't but that's about it.

Is there a way how to make Composer work and keeping the submodules? Please send me a pull request.