Problems with composer on TYPO3 7.x

README.md

Composer install on Windows

Use the composer.json example on windows. In Addition to the composer manifest we provide a LocalConfiguration.php and AdditionalConfiguration with our provisioning. So the bootstrap is not in FIRST_INSTALL mode, maybe that's something that does have an influence? When we hit typo3/install to run DB compare to seed the database we do get:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'LogicException' with message 'No class loading information found for TYPO3 CMS. Please make sure you installed TYPO3 with composer or the typo3/contrib/vendor folder is present.' in ....

Note to self:

• check wether dropping provisionde typo3conf/* items and adding FIRST_INSTALL does make a change
• check wether targeting dev-master does make a change
• check wether the autoload is created, where it is created and check the content

Create Project from scratch

see http://composer.typo3.org/

composer create-project typo3/cms-base-distribution CmsBaseDistribution dev-master

executed under Linux

[RuntimeException]  
Could not scan for classes inside "/tmp/foo/CmsBaseDistribution/typo3_src/typo3/sysext/core/Resources/PHP/" which does not appear to be a file nor a folder

Set vendor-dir to typo3/contrib/vendor

Downloading a .zip/.tgz release package we can see composer.json with vendor-dir set to typo3/contrib/vendor (in order to package the vendor packages into the release).

Ok, so now let's try to set the vendor-dir to typo3/contrib/vendor ourselves, see composer-vendor-dir-contrib.json

"vendor-dir": "typo3/contrib/vendor",

[InvalidArgumentException]
The symlink target "typo3" already exists

composer-vendor-dir-contrib.json

{
  "name": "test/composervendor",
  "description": "Dummy project to demonstrate TYPO3 composer usage",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "minimum-stability": "dev",
  "license": "proprietary",
  "config": {
    "vendor-dir": "typo3/contrib/vendor",
    "bin-dir": "bin"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Peter Niederlag",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    }
  ],
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "http://composer.typo3.org/"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "typo3/cms": ">=7.3.0,<7.3.99",
    "typo3-ter/news": ">=3.2.0,<3.2.99"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "post-install-cmd": [
    ]
  }
}

composer.json

{
  "name": "test/composer1",
  "description": "dummy to demonstret composer usage for TYPO3",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "minimum-stability": "dev",
  "license": "proprietary",
  "config": {
    "vendor-dir": "Packages/Libraries",
    "bin-dir": "bin"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Peter Niederlag",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    }
  ],
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "http://composer.typo3.org/"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "typo3/cms": ">=7.3.0,<7.3.99",
    "typo3-ter/news": ">=3.2.0,<3.2.99"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "post-install-cmd": [
    ]
  }
}

Workaround

copy typo3/contrib/vendor from distribution package