Erroneous compression algorithm info

[rask]

Attempted to follow installation instructions for a project-installation with bamarni/composer-bin-plugin as such:

$ composer require --dev bamarni/composer-bin-plugin
$ composer bin box require --dev humbug/box
# then inserted required commands to `post-install-cmd` and `post-update-cmd`
$ composer update # just in case

When attempting to run

$ vendor/bin/box help build

I receive the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught error: Class 'KevinGH\Box\Application' not found in /path/to/project/vendor-bin/box/vendor/humbug/box/bin/box:19

It seems like bamarni/composer-bin-plugin is not running composer install on packages properly as the humbug/box vendor directory is missing a vendor directory.

I will try and see if a global installation changes anything, but I would like to carry the dep as a local dep with the project to make CI build pipelines just a little simpler to set up.

[theofidry]

Try to do:

composer bin box require --dev humbug/box:dev-master

This fork is still not very stable yet. The tests are green so it should be ok but I prefer to be transparent and say that I it's not ready for an alpha or beta release yet :)

Also regarding bamarni you should see when it executes the install, but if you want to run an install/update or anything again, you should do:

composer bin box update
# or
composer bin all

Otherwise you're running the composer command for the root composer.json, not the vendor-bin/box/composer.json one

[rask]

I'll see what the dev-master version says, thanks. :)

Global installation works fine otherwise, but I keep getting errors regarding temporary file creation. Perhaps that is fixed in the dev-master setup too.

I'll get back when I learn more.

[rask]

Okay, dev-master fixed the issues, and the temporary file error stemmed from invalid compression option.

What are the valid values for compression in box.json? According to help build GZ and BZ2 are fine, but with GZ it fails.

Thanks!

[theofidry]

Weird, sorry can't look atm. What error do you get exactly?

[theofidry]

Hm after looking into this I found an issue. So the compression algorithm works fine on my end: the PHAR is properly compressed. However, Phar::isCompressed() or box info myphar.phar returns respectively false and None. This is due to Box using Phar::compressFiles() instead of Phar::compress(). In theory it does the same thing, in practice the second override the stub file. Box uses a custom stub file so this is a no go, and unfortunately because of that the result is a lie.

[theofidry]

Closed by #93