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nouvre's avatar

spark license with multiple developers

I hired a couple developers to help me with my spark app. But they can't install spark locally without installing from the git repo and they can't do that without joining the repo. But they didn't buy spark. I hope I'm making sense. I have one site license but need multiple people to contribute. Anyone knows how this is supposed to work?

I sent spark support an email this morning but nothing from them.

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jackLyons's avatar

I'm having this exact issue. I am trying to join a new team repo and am getting installation errors even when I register the currently active API key. I don't know if Spark allows a multi-developer team license?

nouvre's avatar

Yes I did figure this out, you do this in the composer.json:

Under the requires:

"laravel/spark-aurelius": "7.0.3",

And then add a section to composer.json like this:

"repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://x-access-token:<blahblahblah>@github.com/laravel/spark-aurelius.git"
        }
    ],

Where ...

<blahblahblah>

... is your access token. I included this composer.json in git and when running composer update it works great.

wiggonator's avatar

We still get an error with our other developers. Any suggestions to get this running?

We tried: "repositories": [ { "type": "vcs", "url": "https://x-access-token:@github.com/laravel/spark-aurelius.git" } ],

The access-token we used was the spark register token. Was this the correct one? Is there another token?

This is the error: [RuntimeException] Failed to execute git clone --no-checkout 'https://:@github.com/laravel/spark-aurelius.git' '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/pulseping/vendor/laravel/spark-aurelius' && cd '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/pulseping/vendor/laravel/spark-aurelius' && git remote add composer 'https://:@github.com/laravel/spark-aurelius.git' && git fetch composer Cloning into '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/pulseping/vendor/laravel/spark-aurelius'... remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://:@github.com/laravel/spark-aurelius.git/' not found

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