How do you get composer to install a non-composer package?

Question

I am trying to get composer to download the following library from this project, however, it does not have a composer.json file in it so I'm not sure if this is possible.

{     "require" : {         "fguillot/picoFeed" : "*"     },     "repositories": [         {             "type": "vcs",             "url": "https://github.com/fguillot/picoFeed"         }     ] } 

Error:

[Composer\Repository\InvalidRepositoryException]
No valid composer.json was found in any branch or tag of https://github.com/fguillot/picoFeed, could not load a package from it.

Answer 1

To include a non composer repository you need to set up a package repository. Which would give you something like:

{     "repositories": [         {             "type": "package",             "package": {                 "name": "fguillot/picoFeed",                 "version": "dev-master",                 "source": {                     "url": "https://github.com/fguillot/picoFeed",                     "type": "git",                     "reference": "origin/master"                 }             }         }     ],     "require": {         "fguillot/picoFeed": "dev-master"     } }