Composer: required packages with differing levels of minimum-stability

Question

I have a composer file for a laravel installation with the following composer.json file:

{
    \"name\": \"laravel/laravel\",
    \"description\": \"The Laravel          


        

Answer 1

The answer is just add @dev

{
    "require": {
        "cartalyst/sentry": "2.0.*@dev"
    },
}

You can read more about minimum stability settings here.

An alternative is to set your minimum-stability to dev, but tell composer you want to use stable whenever possible:

"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable" : true

This basically means it will always use stable UNLESS there is no way to install a stable dependency, and therefore use dev.

Answer 2

You can also use other levels of stability, like alpha, beta combined with version selector.

Examples

With caret operator - maximum of version 2 allowing beta:

"cartalyst/sentry": "^2@beta"

Any version allowing alpha

"cartalyst/sentry": "*@alpha"