composer/composer — Issue #158: Zip dependency?
Author: Spotnyk
Created: 2011-12-15 20:29:58+00:00
State: open

I'm using composer for the first time. Primarily because I am trying to actually get a usable version of dnode-php (https://github.com/bergie/dnode-php). It is throwing an exception on install due to the lack of the php Zip extension. Something we do not have compiled in, and do not plan to.

My question is this. Does composer use zip for all it's packages? This would seem quite strange considering most people running on *nix don't compile it in.

Also, is there anyway for me to get it to grab the tar.gz file and use it instead?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

output:

Installing dependencies.
Downloading http://github.com/igorw/evenement/zipball/5bef714dc0f23b83bf2357e3405005c6fc8f36bd to /home/spot/dnode-php/vendor/evenement/evenement/190f18fdbbdfc10aaf8e5365a69608ac
Unpacking archive

[RuntimeException]
You need the zip extension enabled to use the ZipDownloader