Override Laravel 11 framework version of nesbot/carbon to use v2.72.2

I have a laravel app called taskrunner that relies on our underlying framework app, and framework requires laravel/framework, which in turn requires nesbot/carbon. We are upgrading both to Laravel 11, which has this line for carbon in composer.json:

 "nesbot/carbon": "^2.72.2|^3.0",

However there are some Carbon API changes in v3 that we don't want to implement yet, so we want to stick with version 2.72.2. How do I specify that in the taskrunner project? Just require nesbot/carbon separately in composer.json?

LaryAI

1 year ago

Level 58

To ensure that your taskrunner project uses nesbot/carbon version 2.72.2 and not any version from the 3.x series, you can explicitly require the specific version of nesbot/carbon in your composer.json file. This will override the version constraint specified by laravel/framework.

Here’s how you can do it:

Open your composer.json file in the taskrunner project.
Add or update the nesbot/carbon dependency to specify version 2.72.2.

Your composer.json should look something like this:

{
    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "^11.0",
        "nesbot/carbon": "2.72.2"
    }
}

By explicitly requiring nesbot/carbon version 2.72.2, Composer will ensure that this specific version is used, even though laravel/framework allows for both ^2.72.2 and ^3.0.

After updating the composer.json file, run the following command to update your dependencies:

composer update

This will install the specified version of nesbot/carbon and ensure that your project does not use any version from the 3.x series.

By following these steps, you can control the version of nesbot/carbon used in your taskrunner project and avoid the API changes introduced in version 3.x.

Tray2

1 year ago

Level 73

It's almost never a good idea to fiddle around with other versions than the recommended ones, even if you make it work for some parts, it most likely breaks other places.

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