Php-language-server: composer global require felixfbecker/php-language-server fails

[cweagans]

Here's what I'm seeing:

$ composer global require felixfbecker/language-server
Changed current directory to /home/cweagans/.config/composer
Using version ^4.2 for felixfbecker/language-server
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.2.3 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.x-dev#e8acf8e029301b0e3ea7e7c9eef0aee914db78bf -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.2.2 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.x-dev#e8acf8e029301b0e3ea7e7c9eef0aee914db78bf -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.2.1 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.x-dev#e8acf8e029301b0e3ea7e7c9eef0aee914db78bf -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.2.0 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.x-dev#e8acf8e029301b0e3ea7e7c9eef0aee914db78bf -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - Installation request for felixfbecker/language-server ^4.2 -> satisfiable by felixfbecker/language-server[v4.2.0, v4.2.1, v4.2.2, v4.2.3].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

Would it be okay to update the codesniffer dependency to their most recent 3.0 RC?

[felixfbecker]

No, the 3.0 RC is bugged. I don't know how to increase the minimum-stability to dev for global packages, that would be the way to go.

[cweagans]

Do you know which specific bug it is? 'Cause I'm seeing that RC2 was tagged after the commit that codesniffer is pinned at.

[felixfbecker]

It was https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/1218. If you think RC2 includes that, feel free to do a PR that updates the dependency and test it out. Note that the pinning doesn't work really, it always uses the latest branch.

[cweagans]

Just based on the dates of the commits in that issue and when RC2 was tagged, I'm pretty sure it's there, but I'll open a PR to test it out.

[cweagans]

You should consider adding a composer.lock to the repo, though. That way, your tests are always happening against a particular version of the dependency.

[felixfbecker]

No. composer.lock is for projects, not for libraries.

[cweagans]

I think that's a bit of a false distinction, but nbd. If you don't want to, it's all good. Opening PR shortly.

[hk0i]

I'm getting a similar issue, could someone point me in the right direction of what I need to do here?

composer require felixfbecker/language-server
Using version ^4.4 for felixfbecker/language-server
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.4.1 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.0RC3 -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.0RC3] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - felixfbecker/language-server v4.4.0 requires squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.0.0RC3 -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[3.0.0RC3] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - Installation request for felixfbecker/language-server ^4.4 -> satisfiable by felixfbecker/language-server[v4.4.0, v4.4.1].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

[matt-allan]

@hk0i this should work:

composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer:3.0.0RC3 as 3.0.0"

You will probably also run into a minimum stability error for the phpstorm-stubs, so you can do this:

composer global require "jetbrains/phpstorm-stubs:dev-master@dev"