How do you get composer to install a non-composer package?

Question

I am trying to get composer to download the following library from this project, however, it does not have a composer.json file in it so I\'m not sure if this i

Answer 1

To include a non composer repository you need to set up a package repository. Which would give you something like:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "fguillot/picoFeed",
                "version": "dev-master",
                "source": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/fguillot/picoFeed",
                    "type": "git",
                    "reference": "origin/master"
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "fguillot/picoFeed": "dev-master"
    }
}