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drustack/composer-preserve-paths
================================

Composer plugin for preserving custom paths and supporting nested packages

1.0.9(9y ago)14.3k2GPL-2.0+PHP

Since Dec 27Pushed 9y ago3 watchersCompare

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Composer Preserve Paths
=======================

[](#composer-preserve-paths)

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Composer plugin for preserving custom paths and supporting nested packages.

This way you can:

- Provide custom files or directories that will not be overwritten on `composer install` or `composer update`
- Place packages within the directory of another package (using a composer installer like [composer/installers](https://packagist.org/packages/composer/installers))

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Simply install the plugin with composer:

```
$ composer require drustack/composer-preserve-paths:~1.0

```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

For configuring the paths you need to set `preserve-paths` within the `extra` of your root `composer.json`.

```
{
    "extra": {
        "preserve-paths": [
            "web/sites/all/modules/contrib",
            "web/sites/all/themes/contrib",
            "web/sites/all/libraries",
            "web/sites/all/drush",
            "web/sites/default/settings.php",
            "web/sites/default/files"
        ]
    }
}

```

Example
-------

[](#example)

An example composer.json using [composer/installers](https://packagist.org/packages/composer/installers):

```
{
    "config": {
        "vendor-dir": "vendor"
    },
    "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "web/": [
                "type:drupal-core"
            ],
            "web/profiles/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-profile"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/drush/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-drush"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/libraries/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-library"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/modules/contrib/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-module"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/modules/custom/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-custom-module"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/themes/contrib/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-theme"
            ],
            "web/sites/all/themes/custom/{$name}/": [
                "type:drupal-custom-theme"
            ]
        },
        "preserve-paths": [
            "web/sites/all/modules/contrib",
            "web/sites/all/themes/contrib",
            "web/sites/all/libraries",
            "web/sites/all/drush",
            "web/sites/default/settings.php",
            "web/sites/default/files"
        ]
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://packages.drupal.org/7"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "composer/installers": "~1.0",
        "drupal/drupal": "~7.54",
        "drupal/views": "3.x-dev",
        "drustack/composer-preserve-paths": "~1.0"
    }
}

```

License
-------

[](#license)

- Code released under [GPL-2.0+](https://github.com/drustack/composer-preserve-paths/blob/master/LICENSE)
- Docs released under [CC BY 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Author Information
------------------

[](#author-information)

- Wong Hoi Sing Edison
    -
    -

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 58.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~56 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

15

Last Release

3419d ago

Major Versions

0.1.3 → 1.0.02017-01-22

0.1.4 → 1.0.32017-02-04

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/780562?v=4)[Wong Hoi Sing Edison](/maintainers/hswong3i)[@hswong3i](https://github.com/hswong3i)

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Top Contributors

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---

Tags

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