Cannot override vendor's composer.json autoload in project's composer.json

[jonathaningram]

I was using the autoload section of composer.json to allow a dev copy of my acme/library repository to be loaded before the copy in the vendor folder. This means that in development I can edit the library files locally and they will be loaded before the version installed in vendor. In production, it doesn't matter because only the vendor/acme/library version exists.

The composer.json section is like this:

{
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "": "src/",
            "Acme": "acme-library/src/"
        },
    }
}

In that file, acme-library is a symlink that exists at the root of the project.

Prior to the fix in #1051, my generated autoload file would look like this:

<?php

return array(
    'Acme' => array($baseDir . '/acme-library/src/', $vendorDir . '/acme/library/src/'),
);

Now, the values in that array are reversed which means that $vendorDir . '/acme/library/src/' is loaded first and thus my locally changed library files do not get included.

Refs #1051, refs #1017

[simensen]

This was addressed at least once awhile back in #204. It had a test and a fixture that have since been removed. I have no idea what happened in #1051 that broke this but I depend on the original behavior of root package PSR-0 autoload taking precedence over dependencies PSR-0 autoload as well.

[jonathaningram]

@Seldaek is appears this was fixed since a week or two. Was this on purpose or a by-product of something else? Either way, it may need a test case to prove.

[Seldaek]

Oh right yes it was fixed by @hason's PR linked above, and it included new tests which I think cover this case.