How does the “replace” property work with composer?
So how does the " replace " property work with composer ? I have read the composer document but still not understand it. Searching for more info hasn't answered my questions. When I look at the composer.json file on Laravel/Framework on github. I can't see how replace will work. Can someone explain to me how this works? And what the variable "self.version" will equal to? The Composer documentation gives two basic examples. I'll try to explain: Lists packages that are replaced by this package. This allows you to fork a package, publish it under a different name with its own version numbers,