By ludootje on

Composer... Why, why, why... Okay, no whyning. Composer is the direction chosen by the powers that be. I try to use it. The past couple of days, however, typing this (on my localhost):

(....)\wamp\dru937>composer require 'drupal/entities_import:^1.2'

(as suggested by the makers on https://www.drupal.org/project/entities_import  ) leads to this:

In VersionParser.php line 519:

  Could not parse version constraint 1.2': Invalid version string "1.2'"


require [--dev] [--dry-run] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--prefer-install PREFER-INSTALL] [--fixed] [--no-suggest] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--no-install] [--update-no-dev] [-w|--update-with-dependencies] [-W|--update-with-all-dependencies] [--with-dependencies] [--with-all-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-req IGNORE-PLATFORM-REQ] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [--sort-packages] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--apcu-autoloader-prefix APCU-AUTOLOADER-PREFIX] [--] [<packages>...]

Searching for this "parse version constraint" on the forum has led to a number of threads, all quite arcane, to be honest. Is there anyone out here who can tell me what to do, and where to do??

Thanks ever so much.

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jaypan
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commented

Is your system (Windows) inserting smart quotes?

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ludootje commented

As far as I can make out, no smart quotes are being inserted.  '  remains   '   and   "   remains  " , the opening quote is the same as the closing quote.

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Oh, the problem is the use of quotes in the first place. You should be using:

require drupal/entities_import:^1.2
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pheski commented

I have been using the following syntax, because that is what is recommended on Drupal.org.

composer require 'drupal/<modulename>:<version>'

Drupalizeme aslo recommends the same syntax:

composer require 'drupal/token:^1.5'

My understanding has been that different shells and different operating systems may deal with different quotes differently.

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ludootje commented

Thanks, Jaypan, leaving out the quotes appears to have done the trick. The composer command gave happy green characters on the screen: yay! The module itself, sadly, led to one of those absurdly long error messages full of silly CamelCase, without really helping, but that's another issue - the Composer problem has been solved.

Just wondering: if leaving out the quotes did the trick, then why did the makers of the module put them in the first place? See: Releases, on https://www.drupal.org/project/entities_import  . They had better not do this - and they're not the only ones: quite a few other modules I tried to install a few days ago, gave the same problem - but sadly, I didn't keep track of them. Anyway, a warning that the quotes might give trouble, would be ever so welcome. 

Once again: my thanks!

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Maybe this works on other systems and not windows. Or maybe your windows configuration is inserting a different type of quotes. I couldn't say.

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opgobee commented

Just for anyone reading this. I had the same problem. I tried to install on Windows, using cmd box, with the commands as recommended on the modules within quotes:

composer require 'drupal/ctools:^3.7'

AND

composer require 'drupal/entity_browser:^2.6'

both failed with

Could not parse version constraint ...': Invalid version string "....'"

Leaving out the recommended quotes:

composer require drupal/ctools:^3.7

AND

composer require drupal/entity_browser:^2.6

worked well.

The documentation page https://www.drupal.org/node/2718229 states that the quotes are recommended to prevent problems on different shells. This actually puts you on the wrong track on Windows. Having read in this comment that I am not the only one that stumbled on this issue, I am submitting an addition to this documentation page stating that on Windows, the quotes actually might break the install and it is better to leave them out.

Addendum:

Later I noted that using double quotes DOES work on Windows.

e.g:

composer require "drupal/ctools:^3.7"

works.

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hockey2112 commented

Double quotes worked for me on windows 11 when upgrading D9 to D10 using the commands here: https://www.drupal.org/docs/upgrading-drupal/upgrading-from-drupal-8-or-...

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manoj6689 commented

I encountered the same problem in windows 11. The following solution worked for me.

I used the command without the quotation marks. Like:

composer require drupal/bootstrap:^5.0