TYPO3 Core

Since the composer handling in TYPO3 6.2 is not perfect and you quite easy run into troubles when it comes to dependency handling, I have a suggestion to improve the current situation.

My suggestion is to ignore the Composer dependencies in the TYPO3 Extension Manager completely and only respect the ext_emconf.php files.

This would makes things a lot easier:

In the composer.json files you could use real Composer Package names for dependency handling (e.g. typo3-ter/my-dependency or even my-vendor/mypackage for packages from Packagist).

In the ext_emconf.php files you use Extension keys.

No need for "replace" configuration in the composer.json files any more. No more hassle with underscore / dash naming.

I'll push my proposed solution to Gerrit.