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far-blue/dev-linker
===================

A composer plugin to link local working copies of packages

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Since Aug 6Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Composer dev-linker
===================

[](#composer-dev-linker)

A [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) plugin to link local working copies of packages into a project.

This plugin allows you to override a package definition in composer.json to symlink to a local working copy so you can work on both a project and the packages needed by the project in parallel.

Providence
----------

[](#providence)

This plugin was heavily inspired by the [piwi/composer-symlinker](https://github.com/piwi/composer-symlinker)plugin. Compared to the composer-symlinker plugin, this plugin:

- Does not try to scan local directories for packages
- Does not maintain a distinction between symlinks it manages and others you may have created by hand
- Fixes a number of bugs
- Handled a number of edge cases the original plugin does not cope with

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To use it, just add it as a dependency in your `composer.json`:

```
"require": {
	"far-blue/dev-linker": "dev-master"
}

"extra": {
	"dev-linker": {
		"local-packages": {
			"vendor/package1": "/path/to/working/copy",
			"vendor/package2": "/path/to/working/copy"
		}
	}
}
```

The packages being overridden must be valid (i.e. they would still work if you didn't override them).

Note that Composer will only recalculate dependencies when a require or require-dev entry changes. If you wish to switch between a normal package and an overridden package or back again you do need to change the require or require-dev entry for the package before Composer will re-calculate details for it.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 51.9% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3938d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/344317?v=4)[Robert Goldsmith](/maintainers/far-blue)[@far-blue](https://github.com/far-blue)

---

Top Contributors

[![far-blue](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/344317?v=4)](https://github.com/far-blue "far-blue (14 commits)")[![e-picas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1021199?v=4)](https://github.com/e-picas "e-picas (12 commits)")[![ralphschindler](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/76674?v=4)](https://github.com/ralphschindler "ralphschindler (1 commits)")

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/far-blue-dev-linker/health.svg)

```
[![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/far-blue-dev-linker/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/far-blue-dev-linker)
```

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