composer-patches VS bypass-finals

if you're using composer with joomla, and the plugin is installed via composer, you can commission someone to make the necessary changes, create a git diff patch that encapsulates the changes, then leverage cweagans/composer-patches to make it work. if/when new changes are necessary, they can build a new patch.

I've had problems with libraries using final having an API that isn't customizable enough in a particular way I need because I'm innovating in some way they could never have considered in the past, so my choice ends up either needing to fork the library or monkey patch it with https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches so I can get rid of final so I can keep using it. They wouldn't accept a change in API or behaviour because it would break things for other users, etc.

There are cool tools to integrate patches from drupal.org (or your own custom patches) into your composer managed drupal website. For example (not drupal specific but works well with drupal+composer): https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches

If the PR get's merged, I want `yay` or `pacman` to skip the patch. Ideally it would be declared in a pacman.patches file or similar to what https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches provides for composer PHP package managment.

This has been an issue for a while, and is outlined here: - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/172#issuecomment-587147692 - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/326

Install a package that allows the composer to work with patches:

And if for some reason you do not want to make a fork, you can also create a composer patch with the help of https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches

https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches - this lets you patch packages when they are pulled in by Composer. I have used it in the past to get minor bugfixes into a project ASAP without having to wait for upstream or forking the entire package.

I had this issue when working with Dibi as I needed to mock final methods. You can use this https://github.com/dg/bypass-finals package and forget all the debate about finals against non-final.

It definitely is my job. If you feel you should ignore best practices and author's opinion, use something like this: https://github.com/dg/bypass-finals

Even with the keyword final it's still possible to extend by using the final disable library https://github.com/dg/bypass-finals but the fact you needed to disable it makes it very clear that it's unsupported behaviour.