composer is ignoring installer-paths configuration

Question

I\'m try using CakePHP for the first time with composer, but I have some problems.

I have this composer.json:

{
  \"name\": \"example.com.br         


        

Answer 1

From the documentation.

You cannot use this to change the path of any package. This is only applicable to packages that require composer/installers and use a custom type that it handles.

From one of the packages you're installing:

{
    "name": "smottt/wideimage",
    "description": "An open-source PHP library for image manipulation. (With namespaces, PHP 5.3+)",
    "homepage": "http://wideimage.sourceforge.net",
    "type": "library",
    "license": ["GPL-2.0","LGPL-2.1"],
    "version": "11.02.19",
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0" : {
          "WideImage" : "lib/"
        }
    }
}

So basically the package you're trying to install doesn't support custom install paths.