composer2nix/tests/dependencies/tests-notes.md

Notes about the testcases

composer supports all kinds of dependency specifiers and can refer to packages coming from all kinds of sources.

For validation purposes, I could implement test cases from scratch, but this is a lot of work. Instead, I took existing packages as test cases.

The test scenarios are captured in the composer.json file (that is translated by composer2nix into a set of Nix expressions).

This code snippet explains the purpose of each test package:

{
  "require": {
    // A common package and exact dependency specifier
    "phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor": "2.9.1",
    // A common package and version range dependency specifier
    "phpunit/phpunit": "9.0.x",
    // A reference to a Git repository using the master branch
    "svanderburg/php-sblayout": "dev-master",
    // A reference to a generic VCS repository using the a Git master branch
    "svanderburg/php-sbbiblio": "dev-master"
  }
}