Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Right now, 11.9. Using Composer and Git to Download Files - https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/install-composer.html
Contains the following step:
. If you have not already done so, you can optionally override the default location where Composer will put downloaded modules and themes. For example, typically you would want contributed modules to go in a _contrib_ subdirectory of the top-level _modules_ directory, instead of the default location of _modules_. To make this change, edit the _composer.json_ file at the root level in your site installation. Find the line that says +"extra": {+, and add these lines following that line: + ---- "installer-paths": { "modules/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-module"], "modules/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-module"], "profiles/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-profile"], "themes/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-theme"], "themes/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-theme"], "libraries/{$name}": ["type:drupal-library"], "drush/{$name}": ["type:drupal-drush"] }, ----
As of 8.3.x however it appears that these lines, with the exception of "libraries/{$name}": ["type:drupal-library"], are all part of the composer.json file in core. See #2813897: Add composer installer-paths by default. The libraries line is intentionally left out because it is up for debate if it's needed/correct.
I propose that we remove the above step from the guide as it is no longer necessary. I think we added it previously because it was considered a best practice at the time. But, it has now been added to core so there is nothing to do.
Any objections to removing this?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | 2930348-4-install-composer.patch | 2.28 KB | eojthebrave |
Comments
Comment #2
eojthebraveAdditionally, this chunk in the same file is no longer necessary as of 8.3.x.
As mentioned above, the installer_paths bit is already included. And you no longer need to run the
composer config repositories.drupal composer https://packages.drupal.org/8command after #2758737: Add a packages.drupal.org to root composer.jsonComment #3
jhodgdonGood catch! Agreed with all the changes above. Do you want to make a patch?
Comment #4
eojthebraveYou bet. Here's a patch for the English language source file with the proposed changes. This should apply to both the 8.x-3.x and 8.x-4.x branches. And we can apply it to both if we want since this change was introduced to core in 8.3.x.
Comment #5
jhodgdonIn the attributions section:
We usually just say "Adapted and edited by Person A, Person B, and Person C from ..."
Other than that, looks great!
I don't really want to go back and make commits to the 3.x branch right now... and the additional instructions don't really hurt anything (they would find this stuff in the file already, so it could be confusing, but ... no one should be using the 8.3.x branch anyway). So committed it to the 4.x branch with change to attributions.
I'll send out an update to the translations list.
Comment #8
Balu Ertl