README/docs should warn about need of Mercurial to install the base package about app HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for pointing that out.
You may run the installation with --prefer-dist to overcome this problem (for hg).

I'll check and update packages.phundament.com to list every package also as a zip file, so you won't need git or hg at all, but PHP mod_ssl.

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Awesome! Glad to have helped (:
On Apr 5, 2013 8:19 AM, "Tobias Munk" [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for pointing that out.
You may run the installation with --prefer-dist to overcome this problem
(for hg).

I'll check and update packages.phundament.com to list every package also
as a zip file, so you won't need git or hg at all, but PHP mod_ssl.

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I'd say the problem is a little bigger as I tried to deploy the app to a composer-enabled cloud server (CloudControl) and they also does not have mercurial, and thus the deploy fails.

Any tip on this?

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What's about --prefer-dist? All hg files should be available as zips, but I had some issues with git files for dev versions from github.

Could you post here which package fails?

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I thought about it but as I have already installed and I'm currently developing the app, I could not reinstall phundament with this option, right?

The named package is yii-rights (not sure if others will fail after fixing this, though).

I'm quite newbie with composer too (and phundament is the main reason I'm learning how to use it) so please be gentle with my dumb questions XD

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Make a backup first!

But, in general you should always be able to remove folders from vendor and run composer install or update with different options again.

So --prefer-dist should download archives without using git or hg, but it looks like it's not available for some versions, I have to check that.

You should also be able by using git init to create a repo from a Phundament installation. The .gitignore file excludes some directories already.
Don't commit vendor/, but composer.lock and you can create an exact replica of your project by running git pull and composer.phar install.

PS: There's a German saying like: There are no dumb questions, but dumb answers.

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Thanks for the tips. I finished the problem adding custom repositories for the mercurial packages, using their zip link instead. This way I still can get updated versions from the other packages, at least.
I'm going to suggest cloudcontrol to run the composer command using --prefer-dist, or installing mercurial.

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Neither mercurial nor git should be required when using update --prefer-dist from now on.
With 0.19 (coming soon!) you can also install without additional tools.

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