So last week Im working along and I run composer install … to get a new framework installation to while trying to track down a bug. The install fails. I am all like ‘what did you say to me!?’ bower-asset/jquery.inputmask package was not being found. I look through the composer.json of the framework and sure enough it is required. A frontend client asset is required to install a framework. While some would say ‘thats a terrible idea’ in this case it makes sense. The framework is a full MVS stack, not just a middleware, or just a ORM, or just a client rendering engine.
Anyways, after looking in Packagist and following the link to Github the repo itself was basically empty. Apparently GirtHub repo alias’s have a life span limit. This limit had expired and thus caused the package URI to no longer resolve correctly. So I submitted a couple tickets on the respective projects and went home.
Not sure how long it took exactly but when I returned to work the next morning not only GitHub restored the alias but the framework group was going to updated the dependency list to point to the (newer) repository in the next point release. While this does not seem like a big thing to some; I felt happy I was able to find, isolate, and identify an issue that effected a number of people; and did so very quickly. Then provided a solution. #problem-solver
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