composer/composer — pull request #1266 by Flyingmana (2012-10-27 19:52:32+00:00)
Title: Dist directory fetcher

For development purposes it is cool to be able to fetch packages from the local filesystem.

Some VCS allow this, but they depend on committed changes, they do now allow using the version on the filesystem direct.

For this I added an additional downloader which is able to copy local directories into vendor.

This needed two changes:

1. add a method to the filesystem class to copy a directory recusrive (I tried to create it similar to the existent functions, but did not test the windows version of it)

2. add the downloader

Now the question is, what is needed to get the changes accepted or how to integrate this functionality from extern.