Hey #PHP friends. My websearch-foo is failing me and perhaps someone knows an answer:
With composer it is right now possible to only install a package when a certain extension is available by setting
{
require: {
ext-foo: "*"
}
}
Is there a way to do the opposite? Install a package only when a certain extension is **not** available?
I was so far not able to find anything in that direction...
Background are polyfills that should **only** be installed when an extension is missing...
will talk for elePHPants! /
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2025-04-30 05:04:28
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